[Zope3-Users] Re: How to create user accounts for a website

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Douglas Douglas wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I'm starting my graduation project at school and decided to use Zope3 (hope it
> won't be too difficult!). The project is about developing a website for high
> school students in El Salvador (Central America) to load and retrieve
> environmental data acquired from data loggers (similar to the GLOBE program
> http://www.globe.gov).
> 
> The first part of the project is about creating user accounts for the website.
> There should be an administrator who will create Schools (having an easy user
> interface for this). I thought of creating Schools as containers because inside
> each school the administrator will create one Teacher (like a
> sub-administrator) who will be responsible for creating Student accounts for
> that school. Students will be responsible for loading data in CSV files to the
> website and retrieving charts and tables from it (my scary part!).
> 
> Each teacher and student will be able to browse other schools data, but they
> won't be able to load anything, but only inside their own school.
> 
> In the New Principal-Source Plug-ins chapter of Stephan's book, he explains
> about creating a plug-in for reading text files with user information. I was
> thinking about doing something like this, but using the ZODB. Is it possible to
> store Principals information in the ZODB? If it is, how can I accomplish this?
> 
> I've also read the Security section of the API Documentation Book, but I'm not
> sure how to start. Maybe the Principal Home Folder would be a good option for
> restricting users to load data only to their own school. I'm almost sure I have
> to use PAU, but again don't know how to get going. :(
> 
> Hoping to get some pointers and willing to read anything you recommend, I wish
> you all good day.

Probably the best pointer I can give you is to buy my book 
(http://worldcookery.com). The problem of creating and managing users 
through the web is explained in there. It doesn't even require the use PAU.

Philipp