[Zope] Give ownerschip instead of take ownership?

[Alec Mitchell]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 01:37 am, Marinussen, M.J. (Ria) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've set up an intranet site. Several people get editing rights through
> a webinterface I created. One of the things they can do, is add a page
> in the right format with a special webform. The pages they add are owned
> by them, and I use "ownership" to place a "mail the editor button" on
> every page.
> So far, so good...
>
> But as webadmin I layed out the basic structure, and sometimes I help
> people set up their part of the side when they don't have the time to do
> it. And these pages are owned by me, not by the people that are going to
> edit the contents of the page. And I don't want people to contact me
> when they have remarks/questions about the contents of the page.
> These editors don't have manager rights in zope, and don't use the
> managementinterface of zope, so I can't have them "take ownership" of
> these pages, and I don't know their passwords, so I can't take their
> identity (don't want to do that either).
> Instead I would like to "give ownership" to them. Only the webadmin,
> with manager rights in the zope interface has to be able to do this. And
> it doesn't have to be permanent; if it's a security risk I can change
> things back to normal after I make the necessary adjustments.
>
> Does anyone has an idea whether it is possible to do this (and how - in
> what direction should I search)?
> (I'm using zope 2.5.1 with python 2.1.3 on solaris)

Assigning them the 'local role' of owner in the seurity tab for the item 
should do what you want.  Good luck.

Alec Mitchell