[Zope] Making users work

[Jens Vagelpohl]

if the user folder does not have cookie-based authentication built in you're
out of luck. you can't somehow attach a login form to any user folder if it
does not provide that facility itself.

i'm not sure what "only posting is restricted" means. posting what to where?
are you creating anything in zope? are you talking weblog?

jens



On 5/3/01 1:50, "Malcolm Box" <malcolm.box@symbian.com> wrote:

> 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