[Zope] permissions check without triggering login

[Toby Dickenson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Faassen [mailto:m.faassen@vet.uu.nl]
> Sent: 13 December 1999 14:37
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] permissions check without triggering login
> 
> 
> Steve Spicklemire wrote:
>  
> >    Could you set the 'proxy' for that method to have a role
> > that can check with impunity?
> 
> Interestingly, this works. You'd think that if I set the proxy to
> manager it wouldn't work as I'd wanted, because this proxy 
> role now has
> permissions equal to that of manager, so I still couldn't check if
> Anonymous can view. But apparently this isn't the case, and it does
> work..
> 
> Could somebody explain this behavior?

AUTHENTICATED_USER doesnt have the permission, the role does.