[Zope] Has anyone tried authentication accross multiple serve rs?

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Pelletier [mailto:michel@digicool.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 8 April 1999 23:36
> To: Phillip J. Eby; Jay, Dylan; 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Has anyone tried authentication accross multiple
> serve rs?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phillip J. Eby [mailto:pje@telecommunity.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 11:10 PM
> > To: Jay, Dylan; 'zope@zope.org'
> > Subject: Re: [Zope] Has anyone tried authentication accross multiple
> > servers?
> > 
> > 
> > At 11:29 AM 4/8/99 +1000, Jay, Dylan wrote:
> > >I need this for a website I'm setting up so that users can 
> > download from
> > >several different locations around the world. I don't want 
> > users to have to
> > >type in their password twice. I presume there is no way to 
> > do this via basic
> > >authentication which leaves cookies. Has anyone tried this?
> > >
> > 
> > I'm in the midst of figuring out how to do authentication 
> > with cookies.
> > The only way I can see to get ZPublisher to work 
> > intelligently with cookies
> > is to hack the "unauthorized" method of the ModulePublisher 
> > class so that a
> > login page can be called.
> > 
> > One caveat for your project: cookies will only work across 
> > servers if the
> > servers share a common domain, e.g.: foo.bar.com and baz.bar.com.
> > 
> > 
> 
> UserDb and etcUserFolder can both do cookie based 
> authentication.  It's
> not too tricky and kinda snazzy in that you can create your own
> login/logout pages, etc.  Check out the source of either 
> package for the
> details.

I've tried using cookie authentication with UserDB but so far can not get it
to work. Everytime I try to login in it presents me with the normal basic
authentication header. I believe this maybe something to do with permissions
but so far can't figure it out. I am using IIS4 and have turned of basic
authentication.