[Zope3-Users] pau scenario

[Pete Taylor]

ah-hah!

i hadn't considered that.  so, lets say i subclass a pau once per
'civic group' i want to have log in, and then have different login
pages for each group.  either that or just an extra capturable field
on the login page.  i could, theoretically, get the named
authentication utility related to the group, and hand the login info
to that utility.  user id would be z3-site-unique, but the login name
displayed to the user could just be the login name they signed up
with.

does that sound right?

Thanks, as always, Gary :)

On 3/28/06, Gary Poster <gary at zope.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 28, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Pete Taylor wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I've been off working on some other projects recently (zope3 projects,
> > but none that involved specific logins and users, just data capture
> > from a public site), and just got back to working with PAU, and had an
> > interesting scenario presented to me.  I'm trying to sell a
> > co-developer on zope3, and we were discussing user management, roles,
> > permissions, etc.
> >
> > after i finished extolling the virtues of zope3's user management
> > system, he asked the following question:
> >
> > say you're operating a site as a portal to some set of functionality.
> > similar functionality, but with different groups of people accessing
> > it.  as an example, say different civic groups around town.  the odds
> > of having a "john smith" at the Civic Media Center and a "john smith"
> > at Center for Cultural Awareness (I'm making these up ;) ) are, for
> > our example, very high.  what if we don't want to force each group to
> > maintain unique logins across the board, since to each unique group,
> > 'jsmith' is a perfectly unique signifier?  what if we want to create
> > our login schema along the lines of "group, username, pass" instead of
> > just unique username/pass?  is this feasible?
> >
> > I can't think of a way to do it, off the top of my head.  I admit, I
> > need to spend more time thinking about it, but I was wondering if
> > anyone else has come across anything similar?
>
> There are three elements of the default pau set-up: user id, login,
> and password.  user ids must be unique.  *Combinations* of logins and
> passwords must be unique.  In theory, then, you can have
>
> USERID jsmith.cmc LOGIN jsmith PASSWORD 123456
> and
> USERID jsmith.cca LOGIN jsmith PASSWORD asdfgh
>
> That's the way I learned it last, anyway. :-)
>
> Gary
>


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