This is a consequence of the changes enacted to prevent server-side trojan attacks, I believe. So, its a feature and not a bug ;p from: http://www.zope.org//Members/jim/ZopeSecurity/ServerSideTrojan What happens if the owner goes away? What if someone deletes the owner from the user database, or deletes the user database? If the owner can't be found, then we'll use the special user nobody, which is extremely unprivileged. regards, george donnelly http://zettai.net/ zettai: zope hosting and dynamic websites

From: Heimo Laukkanen <huima@fountainpark.org>

I just noticed a funny behaviour, if I have a user in userfolder that has created a set of page templates and later I destroy that user - all his / her templates stop working and begin to complain, for example, 'you don't have rigths to access title in this context'.

Of course errors disappear when objects are either owned by new user or user, named like old user, is created.

Is there any good reason for something like this happening? A bug in security mechanism?