[Zope-CMF] Understanding the login mechanism

[Gitte Wange]

Hello,

I'm about to make a new userfolder product that allows people to login to a 
portal from other sites. But in order to even start-out such a thing, I need 
to understand exactly how the login mechanism works.

I have looked at the CookieCrumbler in CMF.
I know that a user is logged-in if the __ac cookie is set.
And a user get's logged in if the __ac_name and __ac_password variables are 
available in the REQUEST object.

 But where is the user set in the SecurityManager ??
Maybe someone can point me to a specific place in the code to look ....

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Gitte Wange
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