GroupUserFolder reaches v1.2 !

The magic GRUF component, adding native group support to Zope hit the stores (!) with version 1.2 !

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 allows groups and users to be stored in a separated backend (eg. groups in ZODB and users in LDAP, ...);
It provides clean management screens (including user and groups editing interfaces)
It provides unique 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 !
This version will be integrated de-facto into Plone 1.1 (Note the GRUF works perfectly as a pure Zope component)

GRUF is another cool release by the Ingeniweb team.