[Zope] Zope and restricted access for different users

[sean.upton@uniontrib.com]

You will want to create a different 'role' for each site category that you
wish to protect; you can apply the 'View' permission to that role in the
security tab of the top level folder for that portion of the site, and it
applies the rest of the way down the folder hierarchy via acquisition,
unless you override it; generally this is a good thing.  You would then
create sets of users with roles to access each site of content.

The best way to accomplish a customized redirect-based-upon-login setup is
either to use a forward-proxy server with a redirector/URL-rewriter, or you
can do it in Zope; I'm guessing you want to do it in Zope itself, so you
could create a TTW Python script or DTML method that acts as your initial
login page.  Based upon the roles the user has, you can do (in DTML):

<dtml-if "_.SecurityGetUser().has_role('poweruser')">
 <dtml-call
"RESPONSE.redirect('http://a.zope.site.com/poweruserfrontpage')">
<dtml-else>
 <dtml-call
"RESPONSE.redirect('http://a.zope.site.com/everybodyelsefrontpage')">
</dtml-if>

and so on...

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Flip Hoedemaeker [mailto:flip@keydp.com]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:53 AM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: [Zope] Zope and restricted access for different users


Hi,

I'm a new Zope user so bear with me....

What I would like to do is create a specific set of users who will be
redirected to specific subfolders according to the login and password they
provide, starting from a main portal. I've tried with the acl_user system,
but I don't seem to be able to get it right. I'm getting confused with the
differences in authorisation, permission, etc. I'm only concerned with
people actually accessing (viewing) the specific parts of a site. Can
somebody point me into a starting direction here?

Flip


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