[Zope-Coders] Wrong username and password == Anonymous User?

Sidnei da Silva sidnei at awkly.org
Thu Apr 21 10:39:09 EDT 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:11:57PM +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
| Indeed. So, this explains the reason why incorrect auth credentials 
| result in an anoymous user rather than an auth failure. Read that way, I 
| think it should stay that way, unless anyone can suggest anything better.
| However, it might help if whoever's "in" this code currently adds a big 
| comment explaining the reasoning. Sidnei?

Well, my use-case is actually for WebDAV. So you won't just visit a
different part of the site at random. I'm currently trying to
understand if this would be a problem for WebDAV too.

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Passwords are implemented as a result of insecurity.


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