Products.AutoRole 2.0b2

PAS plugin for adding roles to (anonymous or logged-in) visitors based on their IP address.

Introduction

The AutoRole plugin allows to assign roles to users from certain subnets.

There is an extraction and authentication plugin included, to enable additional roles for anonymous users. This is required since PAS does not support roles (or properties or groups) for anonymous users. You can disable these interfaces if only logged-in users should get additional roles.

AutoRole furthermore provides a groups plugin interface, allowing you to assign groups instead of roles.

IPRangePlugin is similar but logs in users based on IP address.

Configuration

The plugin is configured by editing the IP filter and roles property on the plugin’s Properties screen. Each line represents a mapping from IP network to roles. The format is as follows:

ip-address[/mask]: role[, role ...]

If mask bits are omitted, 32 is assumed.

Proxies

If your Zope server is hosted behind one or more proxies, be sure to list them in the zope.conf file using the trusted-proxy directive. AutoRole depends on Zope’s HTTPRequest to extract the client IP address, and it, in turn, uses the trusted-proxy directive to filter out proxy IP addresses.

Credits

Copyright 2006 Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (http://www.abm-utvikling.no)

Copyright 2008-2009 Jarn AS (http://www.jarn.com)

AutoRole 1.0 development was sponsored by the Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority

For technical questions contact Helge Tesdal at Jarn <[e-mail]>.

License

AutoRole is licensed under the GNU Lesser Generic Public License, version 2.1. The complete license text can be found in file LICENSE.txt.

Changelog

2.0b2 - 2009-03-20

• Store compiled lookup table persistently so that all threads can see changes right away. [stefan]

2.0b1 - 2009-03-18

• Change plugin id to ‘auto_role’, meta_type to ‘Auto Role Plugin’. [stefan]

• Use GS profile instead of Extensions.Install. [stefan]

• Fix bug in compiler which accepted empty roles. [stefan]

1.1dev-r66205 - 2008-12-01

• Initial PyPI release