How do I use cookie based sessions?

In the book by Weitershausen_ you'll find an example of a simple implementation using cookies and a plain text password file.

There is a ready module supporting LDAP in http://svn.zope.org/ldappas/, but it is not clear how it works (an explanation here would be good) and how to implement it.

At some point Martijn refers to a TTW (through the web) UI for user management. Not sure where that module is, but one version may be living in the xParrot source tree (under trunk/packages/usermgt). It stores user group information in ZODB and has a web interface. And yes, it was written by Martijn et al.

Conclusion

ZOPE3 offers simple user management with HTTP authentication by default. For fancier stuff - at this point - it appears you have to roll your own using the examples listed above. The component framework offers the low level functionality to write one.

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