[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] user folder question

[J Cameron Cooper]

On 15 Dec 2005, at 16:58, Chris Cole wrote:
>> I'm currently trying to setup a custom zope instance for our c.s.
>> department at school. Currently we run a totally linux infrastructure
>> with ldap authentication which we would also like to tie into zope. My
>> question is not how to authenticate against ldap, but I was  wondering if
>> there is a way to disable the default user folder and in automagically
>> put an ldapuser folder  in its place on creation of a new instance.  I'm
>> kinda new to zope, and I'm sure it's possible, but if someone could at
>> least point me in the right direction i would appreciate it.

If you do replace the top user folder with one that depends on an 
outside source, you better learn how to use the "Emergency User". 
Because you will at some point mis-configure the LDAPUserFolder and lock 
yourself out.

		--jcc
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