[Zope] Authenticated Users and lots of folders

[Cornelis J. de Brabander]

Hi Tony,
I do not grasp all the details of what you would like to achieve. I manage a
small educational site with different departments and using basic
authentication I created a userfolder in each department folder. However
people, and especially students, travel a lot betweeen departments and
teachers participate in courses of several departments. Therefore I am
thinking (only thinking because I still have no clear view of how to achieve
this) of collecting the users of all departments into one userfolder and
giving users local roles in department folders according to the data on
their department membership in a (external) relational database.

Cornelis J. de Brabander
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Department of Education, Leiden University
P.O.Box 9555, NL-2300 RB Leiden
+31 71 527 3422/3401
brabander@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Tony
> McDonald
> Sent: woensdag 30 mei 2001 8:09
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> Subject: [Zope] Authenticated Users and lots of folders
>
>
> Hi all,
> I need the Zen of the list here, before I go off and implement something
> weird wild and wacky.
>
> I have a lot of authenticated users (1200 staff, 14000 students).
> The staff are associated with a department.
> There are 85 departments, each with a code (eg 1550 = Medical Faculty)
> I want all authenticated staff to be able to add entries to a database.
> I want some staff to be able to act as 'Editors', that is, allow the
> database entries to be displayed.
>
> Thing is I *don't* want staff from dept 'a' to be able to act as
> editors for
> dept 'b'.
>
> We currently use UserDB to do our cookie based authentication.
>
> My first thought was to create 85 folders, with ids '1550', '1099' etc and
> install a UserDB into each one of them. Each one of the folders has a
> property 'dept', that is the value of the dept code (eg 1550). I then do a
> ZSQL query something like
>
> Select username, password, roles, domains from password, dept_code from
> departments where username = <dtml-sqlvar username type=string> and
> dept_code = <dtml-sqlvar dept type=string>
>
> Does this sound sensible to people?
> Does anyone have a better idea! :)
>
> (please don't say I need to use CMF - I'm tracking that list, but I can't
> figure out how to extract the various parts of CMF (reviewers
> etc) to use in
> my situation).
> TIA
> Tone
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> Dr Tony McDonald,  Assistant Director, FMCC, http://www.fmcc.org.uk/
> The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 243 6140
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