[Zope] LDAP Database and Zope user folders

[Josef Meile]

Hi,

I was looking at the code of the LDAPUserFolder and realized
that it inherits from Object Manager. I'm just wondering if
this is necesary. Does an user folder have to store some
temporal data of a user while he's connected? or is it enough
with the cookies used by zope?

The reason of my question is that I want to implement a very
simple user folder that directly authenticates a user against
a LDAP server without searching his DN on the database. In my
case, I know that all the DNs of the users of my system are
the same except by the username and password, so I could do
something like:

import ldap
LDAPSERVER=ldap.initialize(LDAPServerUrl+':'+serverPort)
LDAPSERVER.bind_s('cn='+userId+baseDN,userPassword,ldap.AUTH_SIMPLE)

I tested that code and it worked fine. My problem with the
LDAPUserFolder is that if the server doesn't support anonymous
connections, I'll need a bind password and username because this
product searches the user's DN and then sends it with the user's
password. The people from technical doesn't agree much with this
approach. For they would be better if I did directly without such
information.

Thanks in advanced,
Josef