[Zope3-Users] Pluggable authentication, a newbie's question

[David Johnson]

On Jan 29, 2007, at 5:30 PM, Alexei Ustyuzhaninov wrote:

> David Johnson пишет:
>>> What do you mean by "Your authenticator is registered as a Plugin  
>>> in a PAU in your current site"? I registered the authenticator as  
>>> a utility and assigned the utility name to the  
>>> authenticatorPlugins attribute of the PAU. Is it enough?
>> I'm not sure I follow you here.  Normally when you create a custom  
>> authenticator you first go into Manage Site add a Pluggable Auth  
>> Utility (PAU).  Then from within the PAU there are plugins.  You  
>> can add your custom plugin here.  Then you select a credentials  
>> plugin and your authenticator plugin.     I'm not an expert by any  
>> means on PAU, but it seems this is the preferred approach.
>> The authenticators I've written implemented the following:
>>     implements 
>> (AuthenticatorPlugin,IQueriableAuthenticator,IQuerySchemaSearch)
>
> Aha, seems that I see where is my problem. I didn't manage site  
> through ZMI. Is it possible to do this manipulation programmatically?
>
That I don't know. Probably.   Why you would want to is another  
question.