[OzZope] Re: [Zope] ownership fun and games.

[danielle]

Sorry for my naive question (newbie one's, I'm afraid), would not be 
possible  to set a special role for a user  in charge of taking  
ownership of  all the abandonned stuff ?
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:

>+-------[ Ed Leafe ]----------------------
>| On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 08:23  AM, Stuart Bishop wrote:
>| 
>| >>It would be much better if the user folder allowed to disable the 
>| >>user (something random could be eventually guessed, besides you'd 
>| >>have an indication that the user is inactive/old/obsolete/whatever).
>| >>
>| >>BTW: there are other cases that make removing old users impractical 
>| >>besides permission problems (think about workflow history, cmf 
>| >>metadata, etc.)
>| >
>| >And if they are relying on the user object to remain around for ever,
>| >they are broken IMHO. Consider the user folder that is populated
>| >from an external source such as a company's LDAP server.
>| 
>| 	Typically, a deleted user is either assigned to the administrator, 
>| 	or the admin is given the option of re-assigning those items to a 
>| different user. Either way, ownership is not broken, and a log can be 
>| preserved of this re-assignment for cases where such archiving is 
>| needed.
>
>This can't happen if the users come from some external source and are managed
>outside of Zope. If the external source doesn't allow browsing of the user
>list, you can be royally screwed, since you can't detect the situation either.
>
>Since Zope allows you to build permission lists that explicitly exclude
>'Manager', you can find yourself in a pretty bad state.
>
>There are ways around this even for externally managed user sources.
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