[Zope] Making users work

[Malcolm Box]

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Jens,

Thanks for the pointer to the userfolders.

I have already looked at these,  but my questions is perhaps a level higher (or my
understanding a level lower).  Given a userfolder installed, I don't see how to link
up my site to it, so that only posting is restricted and the authentication is via a
webform rather than the default HTTP authentication.

Any pointers/DTML-snippets in those areas welcome.

Regards,

Malcolm

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> malcolm,
>
> there are user folders that can talk to windoze, you might want to look at
> this product:
>
> http://www.zope.org/Members/jephte/jcNTUserFolder
>
> ...or use the User management download section to browse all available user
> folder combinations at:
>
> http://www.zope.org/Products/user_management
>
> jens
>
> On 5/2/01 1:43, "Malcolm Box" <malcolm.box@symbian.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > As a Zope newbie (sorry!), I'm deeply confused by how to make users work
> > the way I want.
> >
> > The site I am developing is an "ideas" site, where people can vote on
> > ideas and post new ideas.  What I want to achieve is that everyone can
> > access the content or vote anonymously, but to post they have to log
> > in.  As this is an intranet site, the WinNT domain controller already
> > has a list of every possible user and a password, so I want to use this
> > to authenticate who people are, and I certainly don't want to have to
> > create and maintain a Zope user for each and every person in the
> > organization!
> >
> > When people try to post without logging in, I want to send them to a
> > page explaining the login requirements and giving them a login form,
> > rather than popping up a http authenticate dialog.
> >
> > To say that I have no clue how to go about this is an understatement.  I
> > think there are three parts to this - one is the login form, the other
> > is setting the right permissions on the posting form and the third is
> > accessing the NT user database.  I've looked at LoginManager, acl_users
> > and various howtos, but I can't work out how to put it all together,
> > despite my feeling that it's all there somewhere :-)
> >
> > So could anyone outline how to go about this - pointers to dtml source,
> > howtos etc gratefully received.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Malcolm
> >
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