Re: Sharing membership between different Plone sites

Thanks, Dhyani.

  (Dhyani) wrote:

...

> 1. The good news is that the roles that are not part of the default
> Zope-users-system (like reviewer, editor - Zope thinks only in terms of
> manager, owner etc.) can be added on the Zope-level. They don't make a lot
> of sense there, but Plone inherits them and Plone does understand their
> significance. What I mean is that when a user is a reviewer on the
> Zope-level, which doesn't mean anything to Zope, then he is also a reviewer
> on the Plone-level, because Plone inherits the user properties from Zope's
> acl_users, and Plone understands "reviewer" as "someone who is a Plone
> reviewer", which is a very good thing.

This means that a Member would have the same roles
in all sites: those assigned in Zope's acl_users,
right? Or can we override this on the site level?

> 2. The not-so-good-news is that we are losing the Group-aware-User-Folder
> stuff, since that is a Plone feature and not a Zope feature. Maybe I can
> comfort Priyadarshan here a little by mentioning that we could have a
> different architecture for us (developers, editors etc.) and the public,
> using Plone's user system for us and Zope's user system only for the public,
> since it is the public's membership issue that we concerned with anyway, and
> who wants to put them into different groups?
> - By the way, if anybody thinks he's just got a very smart idea: why don't
> we put all our Plone sites into one big Parent-Plone-Site, with the Parent
> containing an acl_users file (which would then automatically be a
> Plone-based Group-aware-User-Folder-acl_users file) and which would be the
> one that all the children Plone sites inherit from, ---- forget it. Doesn't
> work.

Ok. Site Administrators, Editors, Designers in the individual
Plone Site acl_users. Members and Anonymous Users in Zope's
acl_users in the root of the public Zope instance(s) filestorage.

Let's assume that a Member is known in Zope's acl_users.
If that Member logs in to srichinmoy.org, and then points
his browser to srichinmoyraces.org, does he have to log
in again?

> 3. Now, what happens to our added member properties (the gender-stuff)? If
> Plone loses its acl_users, will the new properties - which are definitely
> Plone-customizations and unknown on the Zope-level - get lost as well? Good
> news again - they don't get lost. Plone basically says, "I know you are a
> member because your name is in Zope's stupid little acl_users, but I know a
> lot more about you because I saved it in my own memberdata_tool". 

So when I join srichinmoy.org, my <insert attribute> is not
understood by srichinmoyraces.org, right? It seems that I
would have to establish my <insert attribute> separately
for all my sites in the set.



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