-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Servilio Afre Puentes wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Developing a PAS plugin for our homebrewed campus-wide authentication > system I have found the only currently defined interface for updating > credentials is specialized for the authentication username/password > scheme, contrary to the rest of the interfaces that support generic > credentials (or at least provide interfaces for them, like the > extractCredentials). > > Why was it chosen to be that way? Are there any plans to make this > interface more generic? I have already been looked at the subversion > repository and the list, only finding a related discussion of almost > three years ago, but doesn't illustrate how it came to be neither on > future plans. > > Would you be accepting of work towards enhancing the updateCredentials > interface?
Yes, we would. You might look at the way the "extraction" plugin interfaces work for a model: the ones which know about login / password, etc., are specializations of the more general IExtractionPlugin, which has a looser contract. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHAqof+gerLs4ltQ4RAiuHAKDEbSusEvfeneoJp2W+Km2Gd6O/YQCcCNWt McNUxyCldqolRMWpnNv+Ia8= =2j/1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-PAS mailing list Zope-PAS@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-pas