[Zope-dev] LOTS of roles?

Florent Guillaume fg@nuxeo.com
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:57:04 +0100


In article <20030304192817.GC3495@slinkp.com> you write:
> > Note that you'll also want to change validate() if you go that route.
> > It has a short-circuited version of getRolesInContext in it.
> 
> are you sure it's not BasicUser.allowed() that you mean?
> there's a comment in there about checking roles manaully
> rather than with getRolesInContext...

Yeah I'm sorry, I meant allowed().
You could also check what NuxUserGroups does, it has to patch this same
area to provide a notion of groups to the security machinery.

Note that I don't remember your exact use cases, but NuxUserGroups could
be useful to you.

Florent

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