[Zope] Can I *add* to the roles a user has?

[Phil Harris]

Tone,

Is there any reason you can't use local roles?

It seems to me this would cover you quite nicely.

Just an idea.

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony McDonald" <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk>
To: "Zope" <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: [Zope] Can I *add* to the roles a user has?


> Hi all,
> I'm authenticating against a database using UserDB and getting the roles
> 'Staff' and 'Student'. They can only have the one role from this database.
>
> I need to then *add* to these roles by looking up in another database (I
> can't easily edit the first database).
>
> For example,
> User = 'tone', authentication with first database gives the role 'Staff'.
> Then I look up in another database and find that 'tone', using the system
> 'eGuides' has the additional roles 'Admin' and 'Reviewer' (no, we're not
> using CMF - unfortunately :(
>
> How can I do this multiple lookup to end up with user 'tone' having the
> roles 'Staff, Admin, Reviewer'?
>
> There doesn't seem to be anything remotely like 'addRole' in the API or
the
> AccessControl directory.
>
> Am I using the wrong system for my authentication perhaps?
>
> Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Tone.
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