[Zope-dev] declarePublic and users

[Shane Hathaway]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> seb bacon wrote:
> 
>> * Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> [010903 18:42]:
>>
>>> Yeah, this is due to a shortcut in authentication.  I don't 
>>> particularly like this behavior.  It bites lots of people.  I wonder 
>>> if we could change it.
>>
>>
>> I think so, FWIW.  As you say, this behaviour is a result of an
>> implementation shortcut, rather than by design; I doubt the
>> performance benefits outweigh the silliness of the resulting
>> behaviour.
>> I thought I remembered someone from ZC saying it was changed for 2.4,
>> though?
> 
> 
> Geez, I don't think so... maybe you mean the "Authenticated" role being 
> added?
> 
> I'd say ditch the current behavior if we can be reasonably certain that 
> nothing important (especially in the ZMI) depends on it.
> 
> Anybody want to write a fishbowl proposal?  ;-)
> 

No, Seb is right.  As of Zope 2.4.x, authentication always occurs now. 
We did some tests with different configurations and nothing broke so we 
fixed it for good. :-)

Shane