I've been toying with the Zope database and I'm probably alomst to the point where I know enough to be dangerous. I am trying to make a few changes to the stuff in the Zope database without actually running Zope. Here's what I'm tring to do: 1 - Create a new user in the top level acl_users folder 2 - import a file "login.zexp" into the top level folder (login.zexp has been copied to the import directory) Here's some code I've written: ------------------ import sys sys.path.insert(0, '/home/zope/lib/python') import Zope appRoot = Zope.DB.open().root()['Application'] # create a new user appRoot['acl_users']._doAddUser(name='ThisWebSiteIsMine-SoThere', password='pw', roles=['Manager'], domains=[]) get_transaction().commit() # login as that user owner = appRoot['acl_users'].getUserById('ThisWebSiteIsMine-SoThere') Zope.AccessControl.SecurityManagement.newSecurityManager(None, owner) # import login.zexp and take ownership appRoot.manage_importObject('login.zexp', set_owner=1) get_transaction().commit() ------------------ Here's the resulting traceback: ------------------ Traceback (innermost last): File "go.py", line 22, in ? appRoot.manage_importObject('login.zexp', set_owner=1) File "/home/zope/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py", line 526, in manage_importObject self._setObject(id, ob, set_owner=set_owner) File "/home/zope/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py", line 267, in _setObject object.manage_fixupOwnershipAfterAdd() File "/home/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/Owned.py", line 273, in manage_fixupOwnershipAfterAdd self.changeOwnership(user) File "/home/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/Owned.py", line 166, in changeOwnership new=ownerInfo(user) File "/home/zope/lib/python/AccessControl/Owned.py", line 297, in ownerInfo db=user.aq_inner.aq_parent AttributeError: aq_inner ------------------ It appears to be dying while trying to set the ownership. There's a good chance that I'm going about this all the wrong way (I'm new at this stuff). Any help to fix up what I've tryed or new ways to approach the problem will be appreciated. Thanks, Steve