[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] RE: [Zope] RE: No Access file found.

[Scott Robertson]

> > Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
> > 
> > OK. Allow me to clarify. Is there any way to redirect the 
> > path for the 
> > 'access' path when it should be somewhere other than 
> > INSTANCE_HOME? Say, 
> > for example, I have multiple instances of Zope databases, 
> > with one Zope 
> > install, and I want to use a single superuser, or access 
> > file. Not what 
> > Im' doing, but closer to a mebbe-real-world use. As far as I 
> > can tell, 
> > Zope wants 'access'  located at '../INSTANCE_HOME'. Any 
> > ideas? Or am I 
> > just wrong (And/Or, that is).
> > 
> 
> 'fraid to tell ya that INSTANCE_HOME is hard wired into the code.  We're
> not likely to change that lest we want to get the 'evil eye of Jim'.
> But seriously, it is a pretty good idea to have something like this in
> one place, for us at least, not you.
> 
> I cannot therefore recommend that you modify your Zope.  I also cannot
> recommend that you would modify it in lib/python/AccessControl/User.py
> in the Super class around line 270 or so.
> 

I've been meaning to bug you guys (DC) about this. Some how, and I'm not
really sure how it happened, maybe it was hard drive glitch or something like
that caused a line in _my_ lib/python/AccessControl/User.py to change from
 f=open('%s/access' % INSTANCE_HOME, 'r') to 
 f=open('%s/access' % SOFTWARE_HOME, 'r')
and ever since that happened I've been able to manage multiple instances
of zope, each with their own database, with one superuser account. Oh and
I belived the access file moved to zope/lib/python as well, must be
related to that same hard drive glitch I was talking about. It was freaky,
but turned out to be really useful if you know what I mean.

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