[Zope] Non-manager user administrators?

[Mike Renfro]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:21:42PM -0500, Keating, Tim wrote:

> I want to give certain users the ability to create, delete and
> change the password for users in general, without making full-blown
> managers.

> Am I stuck with creating a page that uses the Zope API to provide
> this functionality?

At least the password-changing portion is easily enough done:

http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/user_settable_passwords

Change the method in step 3 to check for some other role than
'Manager', and you'd be set. And if you didn't need anything but
bare-bones user cloning, it shouldn't be too hard to do a creation
script, either.

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Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu