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I'd like to navigate the database from a set of root objects in the database without being requested for authorization info.

Do you mean something like an 'object explorer'? With an explorer like interface to the DB?

Not exactly, although having an object inspector might be a nice gloss. I'm talking more along the lines how I can currently rummage through pickles in interpretive mode using 'python -i'. Regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.