[Zope] User groups

[J Cameron Cooper]

> Is there a product available that would enable me to make user groups 
> in Zope and assign local roles to the group, rather than the 
> individual users.
>
> I want to use this in a multi-party CMF portal.  I want to create a 
> group for each party (be that a company, organisation, whatever) and 
> then assign user, reviewer, etc. local roles to the group instead of 
> each user.
>
> I would be easy enough to write this so that the group object handles 
> the individual user local role assignment and removal, but something a 
> bit closer to the Zope security system would be preferable.

Take a look at GRUF (GroupUserFolder) at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/collective

It makes groups just a special type of user, and allows use of any user 
source, so you can use *exactly* the Zope security machinery without 
change. There are (in CVS, at least) even CMF tools for manipulation of 
groups, and Plone 1.1 will come with a web-interface for managing them. 
But even without all that, you can still use it to do what you describe.

          --jcc

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