[Zope-dev] Z2.log file not showing user name correctly

[Chris McDonough]

Someone (Shane?) claimed that 2.4.1 removes this "optimization".

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. David Murray" <bitz@bitdance.com>
To: "George Nguyen" <gnguyen@yahoo.com>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Z2.log file not showing user name correctly


> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, George Nguyen wrote:
> > I was looking in the entries in the Z2.log file and it
> > lists the user as being "Anonymous" when I'm actually
> > logged in as a validated user.
>
> This is very likely the result of an authentication...optimization?...done
> by the security machinery:  if the resource requires only Anonymous
> permission to access, then no further security checks are done,
> including identification of the user.  This leads to various unexpected
> behaviors, presumably this among them, and there has been at least
> one motion to change this behavior.  I don't know if it has made it
> into the Fishbowl yet or not.
>
> --RDM
>
>
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