[Zope-CMF] how can I fake authentication in a unit test case

[Robert Rottermann]

Great,
actually I am using ZopeTestCase.

thanks
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan H. Holek" <stefan@epy.co.at>
To: "robert" <robert@redcor.ch>
Cc: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] how can I fake authentication in a unit test case


> Robert!
>
> You may want to take a look at the ZopeTestCase package.
> <http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ZopeTestCase>
>
> ZTC has support for playing with roles and permissions in your unit tests.
> If you want to do things manually you can log in a user by calling
> newSecurityManager().
>
> from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import \
> newSecurityManager, noSecurityManager
>
> uf = self.acl_users
> user = uf.getUser('herbert').__of__(uf)
> newSecurityManager(None, user)
> # herbert is now logged in
>
> noSecurityManager()
> # herbert is now logged out
>
> HTH,
> Stefan
>
>
>
> --On Montag, 28. Oktober 2002 07:20 +0100 robert <robert@redcor.ch> wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > in a complex environment with a bunch of groups , rules and folders I
> > would like to programmatically test that every combination of
> > user/role/document is properly handled permission wise.
> >
> > To do this I would like to have a unit test with a testusers that tries
> > to handle documents according to his roles.
> >
> > Now my question:
> > how can a testuser authenticate itself in a unit test?
> >
> > Or is there some other way to achieve this goal?
> >
> > thanks for your tips
> >
> > Robert
> >
> >
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