Tres put me on the right path, and now I've got a working OpenID authentication plugin. Thanks Tres!
The goal of this plugin is to allow OpenID to users to participate in Zope/Plone sites without having to create a separate account on the site, and also have them be identified by their URL. My question is: What is the relationship between a successful authentication and user objects on the server? Say an OpenID user who has never logged in before logs in with their URL and authentication succeeds. Is a user object automatically created? Do i need query the database to see if one exists, and if not then create one manually? If so, how do i do that? Where can I read about this stuff? The current state of my plugin is that a user may type in their identity URL and successfully authenticate. I'm using plone to test the plugin, and once the user has "logged in" there is not much different from being anonymous. Their user name shows up in the top-left of the screen, but thats pretty much the only difference. I'd like the user to be able to add content, edit prefs, and leave comments by default just like a normal user, but without having to go through the join procedure. I realize that this is getting into Plone specific territory, but i'm sure the user-object creation issue applies to any PAS auth plugin. Any help or pointers to documentation would be a delight. Thanks, Brian Ellin _______________________________________________ Zope-PAS mailing list [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-pas
