On Mar 28, 2006, at 1:35 PM, Gary Poster 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. :-)
And yes, by the way, if you wrote your own authentication plugin, you
could make the login take whatever authentication tokens you wanted,
including login/group/password rather than login/password. This
would require building replacements for one of the core plugins, but
its eminently doable.
Gary
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