Re: Member/Usermanagement

At 09:46 AM 12/12/2001 -0600, Brent M Hendricks wrote:
>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)

Ah, but there is of course a real problem here. We need E-mail addresses. 
How can I ensure that the username is an email address, or how do you want 
to provide that info?

>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.

Yes, there would be several hooks necessary to do that. However it is not 
impossible. Dario, if you can specify your situation a little bit better, 
we might be able to help.

>Or I could have misunderstood your message entirely :)

No, you got it! ;-)

Regards,
Stephan

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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management