[Zope] [Newbie] Making my own authentication form

[Zahid Malik]

THe thing is I (and presumably others) want to to have our custom forms
to let others set-up users etc. For this we need the API.

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:20:49PM -0500, Joel Burton wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Trevor Toenjes wrote:
> 
> > This is a FAQ that I have never seen a good answer for...
> > I have never found a how-to or any references to the API.
> >
> > The best solutuion I have seen is to search for "User products" that
> > implement their own way of doing things. (search for CookieCrumbler,
> > XUF..etc.)  And read the source.
> > But this doesnt really help you with your question...
> > "how to do it yourself."
> >
> > IMHO, this is a shortcoming of Zope and since I am lobbying for this... :)
> > Add your 2 cents in that "the acl_users API be extended for HTML
> > login-forms, cookie auth, and extensible-properties-of-users" should be
> > added to Z2.6.  An API needs to be defined to deprecate all these user
> > solutions that dont play well together.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Trevor
> 
> Ummm... perhaps I'm missing something, but it's really quite easy with
> exUserFolder or CookieCrumbler. They provide login DTML forms and you
> can just customized them if you want to change their appearance. Don't
> have to get involved in the API at all to make this happen.
> 
> I think that extensible-properties-of-users, non-ZODB-authentication,
> and cookie-auth are all things that should be moved into the core.
> I'd root for exUserFolder for this; it's very flexible about where the
> data is stored, and uses extensible-user-properties.
> 
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