[Zope] Getting a specific user role

[Jason Spisak]

Mabe, Brad writes:

> Forgive me if this has been covered before.

There's no real great documentation on using the security API, and it's
changing a bit anyway.

> 
> I am implementing a login/security scheme through the use of GUF and SQL
> methods.  My user and role information is kept in a SQL database and a user
> can have more than one role assigned to him/her.
> 
> What I would like to do is check if a specific role has been assigned to the
> current user, and then display some additional menu items if that role has
> been assigned.  I haven't been able to figure out how to get and check the
> roles that have been assigned to the current user.
> 
> As usual, any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
>      -=Brad=-

try:

<dtml-if "AUTHENTICATED_USER.has_role('MyRole')">
My stuff
</dtml-if>

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