[Zope] Question: user homepages

[Phil Harris]

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From: Alexander Staubo <alex@mop.no>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 10:46 PM
Subject: RE: [Zope] Question: user homepages


> >Zope security isn't exactly clear to me - could someone help
> >out my working me
> >through this example:
> >
> >I have a Users folder, and inside this folder I want to create
> >users and for
> >every user a folder, with just enough rights to create
> >homepages. Furthermore,
> >say that I have a set of users I trust a bit more that can
> >also create Confera
> >topics on their homepages.
>
> 1. Create two roles: (eg.) SiteUsers and SitePowerUsers.
>
> 2. For your Users folder, go to the Security tab and give appropriate
> permissions to these roles; for example, you'll want full DTML access to
> SiteUsers and SitePowerUsers, but Confera permissions only to
> SitePowerUsers.
>
> 3. Go to each and every home folder (eg., Users/Bob), click on the
> Security tab, select Local Roles, and assign the SiteUsers role to the
> user or users who should own this folder. For power users, add the
> SitePowerUsers as well.
>
> You might want to build a ZClass or External Method combo to ease this
> process (eg., a form which lets you add new home folders).
>
> >BTW: is there a way to log out from the management environment
> >so you can
> >connect as a user with less privileges for testing purposes?
>
> That's browser-specific -- Zope's management interface does not do
> persistent logins. Just open a new browser instance. In IE 5.0, just
> open a new window.

Couldn't you just raise Unauthorized, that should then reset the security
and allow you to login again.

e.g.

<!--#raise Unauthorized-->
<!--#/raise-->

This works with PHP3 for instance but I've not tried it with Zope (yet).

HTH

Phil
phil@philh.org