[Zope-CMF] Re: strange problem fixed by _owner

[Miles Waller]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Miles Waller wrote at 2006-8-11 16:17 +0100:
> 
>>...
>>I stepped through the code and somehow it thinks the user 'admin' is the 
>>owner.  I think this is being acquired from somewhere (not sure where). 
>> I added the line _owner = None at the class level in 
>>CMFCore.DTMLMethod (analagous to that in CMFCore.FSPythonScript) and 
>>everything worked correctly but I'm confused.
> 
> 
> If assigning to "_owner" changes something, then the issue
> is with the "executable ownership" (this is maintained in "_owner").
> 
> An executable object (in this case your DTMLMethod) cannot have
> more permissions than its (executable) owner.
> 
> In your case, the executing user has more permissions -- but
> this does not help.
> 
> You may be able to change the executable owner of your DMTLMethod
> with the "Take ownership" tab of the object.
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for your help.

This is definitely a bug: just returning the result of 
portal_actions.listFilteredActions( object ) yields different results 
depending on whether it is done in a python script or a dtml method.

I'll file a bug report.

Miles