[Zope] User authentication and properties

[Chris McDonough]

Gerard,

For ideas, you may want to take a look at some of the alternate User
Folder implementations.

We still need help on deciding an API for user folders.  You may want to
participate in the discussion at
http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/Projects/Interfaces/UserDatabase to
help determine outcome of that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerard Metrailler Jr. [mailto:gmetrailler@meetingmaker.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 5:35 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] User authentication and properties
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking into a solution to extend the normal acl_user management 
> interface.
> 
> First, I want to have properties associated with a user. This 
> could for 
> example be the email, the real name or their preferences to 
> view a site.
> 
> Second, I want to replace the normal basic authentication 
> method by a new 
> form that will have authenticate a user through his username, 
> his password 
> and a number that will only be known by the server and the 
> user and that 
> will change on each login. This will most certainly require custom 
> properties and methods usable for each user.
> 
> I've seen there are different products available (GUF, 
> LoginManager), but I 
> couldn't understand if they where able to do what I want. Any 
> hint on how 
> to use such a product to do this?
> 
> It also seems to be possible to subclass the acl_user folder. 
> Is there any 
> document explaining how to do this?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Gérard Métrailler Jr.
> 
> Meeting Maker Inc.
> ... the intelligent choice for collaborative scheduling
> 
> Technical Account Manager Europe
> Phone: +41 (79) 239 25 08
> Email: gmetrailler@meetingmaker.com
> Web: http://www.meetingmaker.com
> 
> 
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