Yep. Magic. Sets a global security manager on the thread running the Zope app instance we are using. Each thread has a single security manager bound to it at any given point in time. When Zope serves up requests via ZServer, for example, it sets this for that thread every time an HTTP request hits the server: in the web-serving context each hit has a default security manager (or the last instantiated security manager?) set up for it until it is changed to respond to a request. We do the same, but since we are using a single thread without giving it up, we can do this once at the top of the script, and then run stuff requiring a security context which is usually TTW code, but can be some CMF stuff that also assumes a security context. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Paul Winkler [mailto:pw_lists@slinkp.com] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:54 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: Accessing zope through command-line python On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:37:51AM -0800, sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:

#============================= # An example of putting new content into # a CMF or Plone site in an out-of-process # Zope instance in a Python module: #=============================

(snip) One question:

newSecurityManager(None,zopeuser) #new security manager to help invokeFactory run # also needed to run TTW code (PythonScripts, ZPT, DTML)

How's that work? you don't use any return value, and you make no further reference to zopeuser... that's what I dislike about Zope, there's too much code that reads like magical hand-waving :(

I'm working on putting together an out-of-process Zope howto, which I expect to post in the next week or two on Zope.org, but in the meantime, feel free to email me with any questions.

it's a great recipe, thanks! -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )