[Zope] User authentication via relational database

[David Hassalevris]

Hermann,

You might take a look at SimpleUserFolder.  It allows authentication
information (name,password,roles + any other user information like phone,
fax, etc) separate from acl_users folders. (ZODB).

You can you a relational database with SUF.

You might do a google search on it.

David


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hermann Himmelbauer" <dusty at qwer.tk>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 3:25 PM
Subject: [Zope] User authentication via relational database


> Hi,
> I need to authenticate users against a relational database and after that
give
> them rights to Zope. I have still problems understanding the underlying
Zope
> concepts, perhaps you can give me some hints.
>
> My case is quite simple: My system design has 4 roles: "anonymous",
> "customer", "member" and "director". When people log on to the system,
their
> login/pass is checked with a relational database and then the user is
> associated with one of these roles.
>
> It would be ideal to map those roles to Zope, so that I can limit access
to
> certain functions directly with Zope. But how could I do that?
>
> I thought about it like that: In Zope, I create 4 users, and give each of
> these users an appropriate Zope role. If someone logs in the userid/pass
is
> then checked with the relational database and after that the user is
somehow
> logged into Zope as one of these 4 users accordings to the rights set in
my
> database. For limiting access I would then adapt the security of certain
Zope
> objects.
>
> Will this concept work with Zope? What would I have to do? Or is there
perhaps
> a better solution to my problem?
>
> Best Regards,
> Hermann
>
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