At 11:47 08/09/99 , Stuart Woolford wrote:

I'm working on a cut-down replacement for control of users in an acl_users directory from a dtml document, for example, I can:

<dtml-if names> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('names',names)"> <dtml-call "manage_users('Delete',REQUEST)"> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect(URL0)"> </dtml-if>

to remove users from a list of users selected for removal, it works well, HOWEVER..

I also need to change the roles of users between a defined set I have in select lists on the form, I cannot work out how to do this, I either need to use manage_users('Change',...), for which I have to know their previous password, or I need to give them a new password, I cannot work out how to address the password a user already has, which is in the __ variable (to make it hard to get at, I'm guessing). This is in Zope 2.0.0, BTW.

for example, I can quite happly use (roles and thepass are lists off my form) <dtml-if roles> <dtml-in roles> <dtml-var expr="getUsers()[_['sequence-index']].name>" <dtml-var expr="roles[_['sequence-index']]">: <dtml-var expr="thepass[_['sequence-index']]"><p> </dtml-in> </dtml-if> Bt I cannot work out a line to print a password (ie: the equivalent of the following) <dtml-var expr="getUsers()[_['sequence-index']]".__>:

You will need to use an External Method to be able to call _getPassword on a user object. External Methods are allowed to call methods starting with an underscore. Don't try and read the __ variable, because that is not part of the User object API. UserDB for example uses _getPassword to return the password stored in the backend database. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------