User Security (Roles & Permissions)

[Andreas Pauley]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Andreas Pauley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm starting with a Point of Sale system (QT gui, MySQL db) and I'm wondering 
> if there are any user management/user security modules available that can be 
> reused independently of the specific system that you write.
>
> I think something similar to the roles & permission scheme of Zope would 
> work, were I can assign certain functionality/permissions to a role, and then 
> assign each user a role.
>
> I'd prefer not to fully jump into Zope just yet, because although it has just 
> about all the features you can think of, it is also fairly complex (for me at 
> least).

It seems that its quite possible to use the security system of Zope 3 
outside of the Zope environment in standard Python.
I just copied the relevant zope package dirs to my own source tree and I 
was able to run the supplied Python examples.

Regards,
Andreas