[ZODB-Dev] Completing ZEO authentication support

[Wichert Akkerman]

I have a need to use ZEO authentication so prevent people from accidentily 
connection to the wrong ZEO server. We had a Zope 2.10 client connect to a 
ZEO server used for Zope 2.7 recently and try to create a Plone site and the 
result was quite disastrous.

At the moment you can configure authentication on the server side via XML. 
On the client side this is not possible. The necessary changes can be found 
in a post from to the zope list from 2005: 
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2005-October/161951.html . I intend to 
apply those change to ZODB trunk.

I would like to get that fix in for Zope 2.11, which will use ZODB 3.8. Are 
there any objections to changing this there as well? This is a bit of a grey 
area between a bugfix and completing an unfinished feature, and I'm do not 
know what the rules for ZODB development are.

Wichert.

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