Re: Security internals, was Re: [Zope-dev] LOTS of roles?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

hm... i could have told you that the LDAPUser class in the 
LDAPUserFolder product can do that but i had the whole thread mostly 
tuned out. initially it did not look like anything i could help with 
and the first posting was very long if i remember correctly.

jens

On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 17:13 US/Eastern, Paul Winkler wrote:

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:56:59AM +1100, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
(/me revisits LDAPUserFolder)

Looks like the work is already done for you anyway: allowed() and
friends check if the context has an attribute acl_satellite, and
queries it for any additional roles, and it even keeps a cache.


!!!!!!!!!!  OMG !!!!!!!!!!!

thank you - for some obscure reason it never would have occurred to
me in a million years that LDAPUserFolder already does this.
Well, duh.
Huzzah open-source software!
Amen!

--

Paul Winkler


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