-----Original Message----- From: CURTIS David [mailto:David.Curtis@state.or.us] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 10:49 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Password screens
Friends of Zope,
I am needing a password screen so that certain users who can edit a database can "log-in" to Zope and others do not. Has anyone done this? If so how does one achieve this? Can Zope use CGI-BIN or SSI includes scripts/programs as the password screens. My system is Redhat Linux 6.0/mysql 3.22/zope 1.10..3 Also, Zope seems to be slow(at times) when accessing records on mysql. Are there any performance tricks that can be utilized? Thanks in advance for any help!
Do you mean a form that autenticates the user? Zope uses HTTP basic authentication, which is what pops up the dialog box. Any other method you want to use (cookies, form variables being passed around) you'd have to roll your own. Note that UserDB does cookie auth as well as basic. As for the mysql issue, I suspect the bottleneck is purely a MySQL thing if Zope doesn't behave that way all the time. Note that even though you may be running Zope in threaded mode, the MySQL client library for python (which we did not write and do not support) is not thread safe, so you should NOT run Zope 2.0 with more than one thread if you want to use MySQL. Someone may want to patch the MySQLDA so that the whole thing is wrapped in a lock, or serializes requests before the client library is entered. Either way, given that no one is paying us to do it, we probably won't. -Michel
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