I am sure this question has been asked before, but I can find any information on how to replace the root acl_users folder with something like CookieUserFolder. Can some one tell me how or point me to some docs? Thanks, Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
I was *positive* that there was a howto about this exact topic. Not only was I positive, but I even remember who wrote it, and basically what the title was. It was written by Evan Gibson and titled "Using Generic User Folder at the Root" or something like it. It however seems to have completely and utterly disappeared. It involved some unpleasant steps, I do remember. Perhaps you can track down the howto, sorry. - C Chris Bruce wrote:
I am sure this question has been asked before, but I can find any information on how to replace the root acl_users folder with something like CookieUserFolder. Can some one tell me how or point me to some docs?
Thanks,
Chris
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:50:48PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: However, I would recommend that you never do this. The only user(s) that belongs in root is/are your top-level administrator(s). Create a protected folder, or something like that to put your real users in. Use whatever user-folder you want here. It is pretty general experience that users do not care about the extra component in the path. All they want is an URL that pops them to wherever they should begin. But, you never want to have your admin account locked out because a user folder is broken. And acl_users remains the most tested user folder. You do have to make sure that Data.fs is well-protected! Jim Penny
I was *positive* that there was a howto about this exact topic. Not only was I positive, but I even remember who wrote it, and basically what the title was. It was written by Evan Gibson and titled "Using Generic User Folder at the Root" or something like it. It however seems to have completely and utterly disappeared. It involved some unpleasant steps, I do remember.
Perhaps you can track down the howto, sorry.
- C
Chris Bruce wrote:
I am sure this question has been asked before, but I can find any information on how to replace the root acl_users folder with something like CookieUserFolder. Can some one tell me how or point me to some docs?
Thanks,
Chris
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with the superuser account there is nothing like being "locked out", even with a "broken" user folder, however you define "broken" for a user folder. your scheme seems to suggest a site structure in which normal users will never browse anything at the root of your site. that's a general site structure question that seems to go a little beyond what chris asked in the first place... :) jens On Saturday, July 21, 2001, at 05:43 , Jim Penny wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:50:48PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
However, I would recommend that you never do this. The only user(s) that belongs in root is/are your top-level administrator(s). Create a protected folder, or something like that to put your real users in. Use whatever user-folder you want here.
It is pretty general experience that users do not care about the extra component in the path. All they want is an URL that pops them to wherever they should begin.
But, you never want to have your admin account locked out because a user folder is broken. And acl_users remains the most tested user folder.
You do have to make sure that Data.fs is well-protected!
Jim Penny
chris, replacing the root acl_users must be done with the superuser account. here' s the simple way to create the superuser and do it: - create a file called "access" in the root of your zope installation on the filesystem if it's not already there. you can use the "zpasswd.py" utility in zope or you can simply edit it by hand, it contains a username and password separated by a colon. - restart zope so it reads the file during startup - log into the management interface using this account name and password - delete the root acl_users and create whatever other user folder you like the superuser cannot normally create any objects, but they can create user folders of any kind. you are in a little bit of trouble if you have a bunch of users in the standard user folder because those will be lost and you will need to recreate them in your new user folder. jens On Saturday, July 21, 2001, at 01:44 , Chris Bruce wrote:
I am sure this question has been asked before, but I can find any information on how to replace the root acl_users folder with something like CookieUserFolder. Can some one tell me how or point me to some docs?
Thanks,
Chris
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