And how can I use it in python script? when I use: us = SecurityGetUser().getUserName() print us return printed teh Zope tell me "SecurityGetUser().getUserName()" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- global name 'SecurityGetUser' is not defined Hi Zachary, It's mentioned in The Zope Book under the Users and Security chapter. <dtml-var expr="_.SecurityGetUser().getUserName()"> The _.SecurityGetUser() safely calls the getUser() method -----Original Message----- From: Zachary Wu [mailto:zachary@combi.com.cn] Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2002 1:34 p.m. To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] How to get the current logged on user? I found the function "getUser(self)" in the "Zope book", but I don't know how to use it. There is no example to show :( _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )