[Zope] Access File (was: The Zope Starship (for Python PSA))

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Baxter [mailto:anthony@interlink.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 1999 6:57 PM
> To: Christopher G. Petrilli
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Access File (was: The Zope Starship (for Python
> PSA)) 
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 02:41:17PM -0800, David Ascher wrote:
> > > 
> > > ObZope: I'm having a hard time with the 'access' file -- 
> it looks as if my
> > > Zope installation (w/ ZServer) only accesses the first 
> entry in the file.
> > > What am I missing?
> > > 
> > 
> > THis is completely correct.  The access file is ONLY for the
> > global-overall-uberuser :-)  Everything else should be 
> defined in the
> > database itself :-) 
> 
> Note that you could, pretty easily, write a new UserFolder type object
> which worked off an access file. Could be useful for people 
> who are generating
> the access file from an /etc/passwd file, or whatever.
> 
You could also skip the generation step and write a UserFolder which
works off of /etc/passwd.  In fact, NotMail could use this as a helper
too.

Michel

> Anthony
> 
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