[Zope-CMF] Understanding the login mechanism

[Stefan H. Holek]

Lokk at the User Folder's 'authorize' method.

hth,
Stefan


--On Mittwoch, 08. Oktober 2003 11:11 +0200 Gitte Wange 
<gitte at mmmanager.org> wrote:

> 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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