[Zope3-dev] Re: Status of homefolders?

[Lennart Regebro]

Joachim Werner wrote:
 > In many larger setups you'll have an external user and address data
 > source (LDAP or an SQL database) in the background. So it's really
 > important to think about this issue in terms of a generic user/member
 > API, but allow different backend implementations.

Absolutely. That's what the pluggable authentiocation service is all about.

Florian Lindner wrote:
> There is a PrincipalAnnotation service existing which store annotations 
> to users from an arbitrary source. The annotations are stored in the 
> ZODB. Stephans book contains a chapter about that (chapter 27).

That in combination with using for example an LDAP plugin for the 
pluggable auth could be a good combination then?

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