This is definitely all much harder than it needs to be. I'm in the process of writing a HOWTO to get LoginManager working with a recent version of Zope...
kindly do this as soon as possible so that somebody like me can have rest of mind and have a sound sleep again. I have been tried to get Login Manager and ZPatterns worked on my system (win 98, zope 2.4.0) for quite long time now but all in vain. I need it for authentication with mysql server which i have been to connect with my zope server.
it's possible, but it's not fun. Does anyone know if LoginManager is still being maintained? It sure would be helpful to have it at least repackaged with the components necessary for it to work with Python2.1+ an Zope2.4+. If nobody's maintaining it, I'll look into repackaging it myself, if the licenses allow.
I am looking forward to see this happening. regards. kamal