This alternate pgAuthSource was developed to allow Zope and jakarta-tomcat to share common PostGreSQL auth tables. It's really just a mod of the original pgAuthSource, with changes to the original kept to a minimum. This should help when it comes to cross porting improvements / maintenence changes between the two versions. The only thing that's new is the table schema. This auth source uses: A user table Username, password A role table: rolename and a associative userrole table for relating the two: username, rolename ps. Use the Source, Luke! If you dig a little you will find a couple of different ways of crypting passwords commented out (plain and MD5).