incredible authentication problem
Hi, I'm in the following situation and can't explain it: I've created a user in the root's acl_users folder of a fresh Zope 2.3.1beta2 installation. this user has an "almost" manager local role in a sub-sub folder of the root one, but no role anywhere else. If I login as this user from home or at work, respectively under Debian Potato with Netscape 4.75 and 4.76, then it works fine and the management screens are shown to me. If I tell the real user to try to connect as this Zope user from his home, then only the top and left management frames are shown to him correctly: the right frame shows the "View" of the folder, not its contents. What I can't explain is that in both situations we log in using the very same username and password, but the result is different for him. On a screenshot he sent to me, the top frame shows the good username, and when I personnally lo in with this username the top frame shows it is correct (anbd the same) too. Since I've created the folder as the manager (admin account) of the whole Zope installation, is it possible that Netscape caches my authentification information, which isn't cached for him because he never logs in as admin ? I must say that he and I have quitted and relaunched Netscape several times during several days, but the problem persists. Unfortunately I don't know his Netscape's version, and we can't try IE. Could this be related to cookies, javascript or proxy cache settings ? thanks in advance for any help. Jerome Alet - alet@unice.fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome Fac de Medecine de Nice http://wwwmed.unice.fr Tel: (+33) 4 93 37 76 30 Fax: (+33) 4 93 53 15 15 28 Avenue de Valombrose - 06107 NICE Cedex 2 - FRANCE
Jerome Alet wrote:
If I tell the real user to try to connect as this Zope user from his home, then only the top and left management frames are shown to him correctly: the right frame shows the "View" of the folder, not its contents.
What version of what browser is you real user using? I'm betting the 'wrong' version of IE... cheers, Chris
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Chris Withers wrote:
Jerome Alet wrote:
If I tell the real user to try to connect as this Zope user from his home, then only the top and left management frames are shown to him correctly: the right frame shows the "View" of the folder, not its contents.
What version of what browser is you real user using?
I'm betting the 'wrong' version of IE...
not at all, it's Netscape 4.xx, but don't know the exact xx number yet. I thought I've said it, so excuse me. I've finally managed to test it under IE 4.0x and as surprising as it may be it works perfectly fine. So for me it's ok under IE 4.0x (NT4SP5), NS 4.75 (Linux) and NS 4.76 (Linux). For the user in question it isn't ok from NS 4.xx under Linux. any other idea ? thanks. Jerome Alet
I had this same problem on Windows using Internet Explorer. It appears that IE had some obscure bug that somehow caused this behavior. It went away when I upgraded to the latest version of IE. Try some other version of a browser, preferably the latest version, and see of that fixes it. You didn't say what system your user is running. Cheers, Tom P Jerome Alet wrote -
I'm in the following situation and can't explain it:
I've created a user in the root's acl_users folder of a fresh Zope 2.3.1beta2 installation.
this user has an "almost" manager local role in a sub-sub folder of the root one, but no role anywhere else.
If I login as this user from home or at work, respectively under Debian Potato with Netscape 4.75 and 4.76, then it works fine and the management screens are shown to me.
If I tell the real user to try to connect as this Zope user from his home, then only the top and left management frames are shown to him correctly: the right frame shows the "View" of the folder, not its contents.
What I can't explain is that in both situations we log in using the very same username and password, but the result is different for him. On a screenshot he sent to me, the top frame shows the good username, and when I personnally lo in with this username the top frame shows it is correct (anbd the same) too.
Since I've created the folder as the manager (admin account) of the whole Zope installation, is it possible that Netscape caches my authentification information, which isn't cached for him because he never logs in as admin ? I must say that he and I have quitted and relaunched Netscape several times during several days, but the problem persists.
Unfortunately I don't know his Netscape's version, and we can't try IE.
Could this be related to cookies, javascript or proxy cache settings ?
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
I had this same problem on Windows using Internet Explorer. It appears that IE had some obscure bug that somehow caused this behavior. It went away when I upgraded to the latest version of IE.
Try some other version of a browser, preferably the latest version, and see of that fixes it.
You didn't say what system your user is running.
Sorry, I thought I did: he runs NS 4.xx (probably 4.7x seeing his screenshot) under Linux. For me it works fine under IE 4.xx (under NT4SP5), or NS 4.75 and 4.76 (under Linux) bye, Jerome Alet
If I login as this user from home or at work, respectively under Debian Potato with Netscape 4.75 and 4.76, then it works fine and the management screens are shown to me.
If I tell the real user to try to connect as this Zope user from his home, then only the top and left management frames are shown to him correctly: the right frame shows the "View" of the folder, not its contents.
What I can't explain is that in both situations we log in using the very same username and password, but the result is different for him. On a
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