Description:

GRUF is a convenient tool to manage groups of users within Zope.

It works as a frontend between a Zope application relying on a UserFolder
and a set of two regular UserFolders : one will store the users and the
other one will store the groups.

It has a whole bunch of cool features, especially :
It doesn't patch anything in Zope ;
It integrates smoothly without the need of any additional form (some are
provided but it's only for convenience) ;
It doesn't store users by itself but delegates that job to another User
Folder. So, it works with virtually ANY Zope UserFolder in there !
(especially standard acl_users but also LDAPUserFolder, SimpleUserFolder...)

It supports groups nesting (ie. groups can belong to other groups and
'inherit' their roles It allows groups and users to be stored in a separated
backend (eg. groups in ZODB and users in LDAP, ...);
It supports (since 2.0 version) multiple user sources, ie. you can have a
bunch of users in LDAP plus some users in a standard User Folder, and they all
will be integrated to GRUF;

It provides clean management screens (including user and groups editing
interfaces) ; It provides security auditing tools ; It's compatible with
regular Zope UserFolder API ;
Groups are seen as regular Zope users in applications that doesn't include
groups support. Thus, you don't have to rewrite anything to gain benefit from
GRUF's groups !

GRUF has been designed by the Ingeniweb team.