Re: Member/Usermanagement

I think Dario is talking about the other direction.  ZMMUserFolder uses 
list membership as a basis for Zope-logins.  Making an Authentication 
source for XUF would do the same.  I believe what Dario is asking for 
(please correct me if I'm wrong, BTW) is going the other way: using user 
folder authentication as a basis for list membership. (Eg.  you plug in 
a user folder into a list and suddenly everyone who is listed as a user
is now subscribed to the list)

If this is truly what is desired, it would take a bit more work because 
currently all of the membership information is stored *outside* of Zope. 
  I believe it also presents some difficulties since most user folders 
don't store email addresses.  Also the user folder would somehow have to 
know that when you add/remove people they're supposed to get an email.

Or I could have misunderstood your message entirely :)

--Brent

Stephan Richter wrote:

> Hi Dario,
> 
>> I haven't had the time to look closely into ZMailMan yet (won't happen
>> until) after christmas, :/), but I am wondering what the plan is wrt User
>> and member management.
> 
> 
> Well, at the moment we ave a ZMMUserFolder, which can serve as an 
> authentication source.
> 
>> I would like the user/membership part to be pluggable and present an 
>> API, so
>> that I for instance could replace it with exUserFolder or similar. I 
>> don't
>> know if this is planned or if it represents too much work. I am 
>> willing to
>> start working on it as soon as my current project is finished (1-2 months
>> from now), since I myself have lots of uses for ZMailman with a large
>> userbase and combining them in zope.
> 
> 
> Well, I already planned to talk to Andrew about an integration into the 
> exUserFolder. It should be no problem, since the Member API is already 
> mapped, and once the ZMMUserFolder is done, it should be even easier.
> 
> Regards,
> Stephan
> 
> -- 
> Stephan Richter
> CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
> Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management
> 
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