[Zope] role, user defined roles, and inclusion

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Mon Apr 4 14:01:12 EDT 2005


Chris Withers wrote at 2005-4-4 14:14 +0100:
>Florent Guillaume wrote:
>> OTOH Anonymous and Authenticated really shouldn't be roles but groups, 
>> and indeed in CPS we have special groups representing Anonymous and 
>> Authenticated. That makes things *much* more orthogonal, and local roles 
>> (local group roles actually) can be used with them to assign rights. But 
>> I digress.
>
>I find the distinction between roles and groups to be useless ;-)

A role that does not fit well into the group concept is the "Owner" role.

-- 
Dieter


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