[Zope] Help with UserDB

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:09:04PM -0500, Jason Jones wrote:
> I just changed my user database schema to match that of the UserDB product,

First note: Jason, you can change UserDb to match your schema, instead
of the other way around. I didn't notice this the first time I fired
up UserDb. You open your acl_users folder, and click the "Properties"
tag. Then, you can edit the ZSQL methods used to access the db. Unless
you just mean you added a field somewhere to store Zope roles in, and
already knew all this, sorry. ;-)


> and installed UserDB with cookie-based authentication. Immediately after
> doing that everything became inaccessible. Now, I get the response:

Hmm, I haven't done cookies yet. Perhaps this is it. You do have cookie
acceptance turned on in your browser? (just checking)

<SNIP traceback>

> 
> I set up the UserDB folder at the top level of the object heirarchy, is this
> the problem? Note, the superuser login no longer works and basically I can't
> access Zope at all.

I've got it as the toplevel, as well. You sure the superuser doesn't
work? It still does for me.

> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (especially how I could get
> back into Zope).
> 

DC people? Any hints on how to crack root? ;-) Just kidding. Although,
there may be some way to access the ZORB from a python prompt, and clear
the 'use cookies' attribute on the acl_user object, which might let you
back in.

Although UserDb is an unsupported product, it strikes me that the
superuser login is supposed to bypass the toplevel User Folder, whatever
it does. Otherwise, you can't use it to fix broken User Folders ;-)

Ross
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Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> 
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
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