On 02 Aug 2001 11:41:06 +0300, Shai Berger wrote:
Chris wrote,
Try:
And I was shocked and dismayed to find out that this actually works. It seems like a huge potential security breach for the unwary, since it is available for any attacker. Granted, access rules are not really intended for security, but it is very easy to assume that they always work, and make decisions with security implications based on that assumption.
I read digests, so I only saw Gerd's request for help now; I would expect the right answer to be what the AccessRule product says: """ If an Access Rule is broken, and is preventing normal access, it can be disabled by restarting Zope with environment variable SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE set. """ Because this is only available to people who can manage Zope anyway.
Well, for those running a zserver with, say dozens of virtual hosts, it would really suck to have to restart everybody's sites, just for one site's mistake. Bill