I am trying to make a copy of an object in my ZODB using manage_copyObjects and manage_pasteObjects. I have code like this: import Zope app=Zope.app() x=app.manage_copyObjects([app['getad'].id]) app.manage_pasteObjects(x) This raises an exception, like so: Traceback (innermost last): File "test.py", line 9, in ? app.manage_pasteObjects(x) File "lib\python\OFS\CopySupport.py", line 203, in manage_pasteObjects self._verifyObjectPaste(ob) File "lib\python\OFS\CopySupport.py", line 393, in _verifyObjectPaste if getSecurityManager().validate(None, parent, None, meth): File "/MC2\lib\python\AccessControl\SecurityManager.py", line 139, in validate self._context) File "/MC2\lib\python\AccessControl\ZopeSecurityPolicy.py", line 211, in valid ate raise 'Unauthorized', ( Unauthorized: You are not authorized to access <em>methodAdd</em>. However, I cannot see how to have my script authenticate itself to the ZODB so I can do the copy/paste. Can anyone tell me what I need to do here? Do I need to use Zope.AccessControl.SecurityManagement.newSecurityManager somehow? I'm using Zope 2.2.4, which for reasons too long to go into here I cannot change. Thanks in advance, Noel. -- Noel Duffy Tel: +353 96 36038 Fax: +353 96 36353