Re: [Zope] RDBMS Applications and direct calling of script(python)and sql methods

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:54, Erik Myllymaki wrote:

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---- from AccessControl import getSecurityManager return getSecurityManager().getUser().getUserName() ---- Any reason why you shouldn't just use <dtml-var AUTHENTICATED_USER> as a parameter to your SQL query?

AUTHENTICATED_USER is deprecated because the SecurityManager object is a far more secure source of authentication information. Anyway, once you've set it up, get_user() is way less typing than REQUEST.get('AUTHENTICATED_USER'). :-) HTH, Dylan