Andres, There is a Zope Product named UserDB that allows you to authenticate users from a SQL datastore (http://www.zope.org/Members/otto/userdb)... additionally, Stuart 'Zen' Bishop has released Generic User Folder (a howto is available at http://www.zope.org/Members/hippy/GUF_SQL_crypt) which appears to do the same thing. Insted of relying on apache modules to read and write user info, try one of these. Chris McDonough Digital Creations, Inc. Zope - http://www.zope.org

-----Original Message----- From: Andres Corrada [mailto:andres@corrada.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 10:17 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] How to set-up authentication of pages

Michel Pelletier wrote:

...

I think it would be much easier for you if you got rid of

mod_auth_mysql

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and let Zope handle all the authentication.

Descriptions of Users, Permissions, and Roles can be found in the documentation section of the Zope site in the Zope Content Manager's Guide.

Thanks Michel and Chris for your answers. I'm new to Zope and I foolhardily put into a project I had to deliver two weeks ago. The extensive learning process in Zope is making it hard for me to decide how to get around problems I encounter. I've read the documentation but it doesn't solve my problem because I want an automatic way of adding members to a client's site. I know how to do that with mod_auth_mysql because I can write the Python script that adds form information to the mysql database. What Zope functions can I call from my scripts to do this addition to the Zope users database? The ZCMG only has "hand insertion" of users into Zope.

By the way, I partly suceeded in doing authentication with mod_auth_mysql by having the following lines in my virtual host directive:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^/(.*) RewriteRule ^/(.*) /path/to/my/Zope/directory/Zope.cgi/$1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1, t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] <Location ~ ".*/Members"> AuthType Basic . . . </Location>

When I try to access the members page I get an authentication query by Apache but Zope immediately asks for authentication also, whereupon I'm rudely told that a Zope error has ocurred. Why the double authentication? Why is Zope requiring authentication?

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