[Zope] student folders

[Jerome Alet]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bill Kerr wrote:

> 
> I'm a school teacher and want to set up a folder structure of users in
> Zope consisting of school class names, such as 12ITSAS, and then
> individual folders at the next level down for each individual student,
> Student1, Student2, Student3 etc. 
> 
> I would like the students to have read only and copy rights at the
> 12ITSAS level folder and manager rights in their individual, Student1,
> Student2 folders.
> 
> In that way I can provide them with resources within the 12ITSAS folder
> that they can't change at that level but which they can copy and change
> at the level of their folders. 
> 
> I can't see how to do that efficiently using the Zope security model.
> When I provide students with Manager rights at the level of their
> individual folders (Student1, Student2 etc) then they can't access the
> 12ITSAS folder because that is at a higher level. And of course if I
> give them Manager rights at the 12ITSAS folder level then they can
> modify what I supply them and invade each others folders. 

define all your students at the level above, with no roles, then give them
different local roles (security tab) on the different sub-folders.

hth.

PS : and please don't post in HTML.

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