[Zope] User as Base Class?

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Ingo Assenmacher wrote:

> > I guess I'm wondering why User is available as a base class if you can't use it
> > to provide a modified user...
> > 
> > Any ideas anyone?

In theory, it is possible to modify GUF to allow pluggable users
(and you thought a pluggable brain was cool). That part has never
been written, however, as I had more urgent things to do :-) 

> I think that is for the purpose of a "roll-your-own" user folder, since
> User-class offers some vital methods for authentication
> I think that standard acl-user-folders are, for the sake of simplicity
> limited to add standard user-objects.

Sorry about it having the same name as the default User object - 
I didn't pick up that the ZClass creation would of course have
a flat namespace and its probably too late to change it now :-(

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