[Zope3-dev] Make principals display userinfo about themselves

[Stephan Richter]

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 06:28, Martijn Faassen wrote:
> > If you develop an app that makes user content a central
> > feature (i.e. all documents of a user are stored in a user folder and not
> > in a public hierarchy), then I think you should develop a system that
> > assigns a user a folder in software space.
>
> Okay, so that's the answer to the original poster's question. :) I think
> it's broader than just per-user documents; I think it applies to just
> user information like 'Full name', 'email address', etc. You don't want
> people to have to go into software space for that.

No, for simple attributes you should definitely use the principal annotations 
system! Now that I think about it some more, I believe you could manage by 
putting all data into a principal annotation. The Authentication Service 
allows users to lookup other users. The security declarations on the returned 
user and its annotations decide whether access is granted to the data or not.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
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