One key point I was missing here was that I am using GUF. I patched GUF to do: def getUserById(self, id, default=''): """Return the user corresponding to the given id. """ try: return self.getUser(id) except: raise 'LoginRequired', loginScreen Doing anything with the Security Model makes me nervous. Especially since I fiddled with default=_marker from the original User.py. This seems to work but any feedback from security guru's would be appreciated. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy McKay" <andym@ActiveState.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 6:03 PM Subject: [Zope] Ownership and security

How do I remove ownership from a product, ie: make it unowned?

I have some dtml that works quite happily on unowned objects, but at soon as they become owned I get into a whole whack of problems with getUserById. Of course I would really love to have ownership work, but I know its hell trying to explain it on a mailing list.

-- Andy McKay, Developer. ActiveState.

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