[Zope3-Users] Users in content space

[Jim Washington]

Stephan Richter wrote:

>On Friday 03 December 2004 10:12, Jim Washington wrote:
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>>Surely someone has done this?
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>>I have "users" in a content-space hierarchy.  They can provide IPrincipal.
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>>I think the next step is to make a PAS service that can authenticate
>>based on these, but I haven't figured out the incantation to get to
>>content space to make a list of the "users".  I'm using svn trunk.
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>>Any pointers?
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>No, this is wrong. You should never store users. They are created on the fly 
>when a request comes in. What you really want are home folders, which I 
>*sigh* should finish. Okay, I'll finish them now. ;-)
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Stephan, thanks for the reply.  And I always seem to find an answer soon 
after asking the list. 

I'm storing user info for creating users.  The content for this part of 
the project *is* users, and I do not want to have to send people to site 
management space for that.  It's mainly a small app for creating logins 
for another part of the project.

I found zope.app.component.hooks.getSite() , which gets me to a place 
where I can iterate through the hierarchy and collect logins for a pas 
authentication service.  And it seems to work OK.

Is this somehow dangerous or otherwise ill-advised?

-Jim Washington