"Dario Lopez-Kästen" wrote in message news:00ab01c2d984$904533c0
I have to say that I do not really understand the problem.
If the user is known then he/she/it is authenticated at toplevel ROOT (in the ROOT.acl_users folder) - a pre-requisite for showing content based on the current user.
If so, then he/she/it is also authenticated at sublevel B (in the ROOT.B folder). You do not need to create the user in the ROOT.B.acl_users folder.
Thus the user is known at the root level, and is also known _and_ authenticated at any lower level.
Or have I totally misunderstood what you are trying to do?
Thanks Dario. :-) 1) I want to use ExUserFolder (my users are in an SQL database). 2) I'd like to be able to display user dependent info in root level pages 3) Received wisdom (and a bad experience) indicates that ExUserFolder should not be at root level 4) If ExUserFolder's acl_users can't be put at the root, then how does /index_html interrogate /subfolder/acl_users as to the current user? At the moment I've conceded defeat and have resigned myself to not being able to display user dependent info in root level pages. And I don't like the idea of an instant redirect. Though I suspect that it may be possible to use VHM to achieve the same effect more transparently.