[Zope] Can I change the authentication realm programmatically?

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Tony McDonald wrote:
> 
> What I'd like to do is authenticate against the realm that they've 
> chosen by using the UserDB product. Then just jump to their pages and 
> (hopefully) because I'm using the correct realm, I'll be let into 
> their system.
> 
> Trouble is, I can't figure out where to fill in the gap realm='SST 
> Tutor', it seems that 'Zope' is hard-coded in to the source.

I've just been digging through the source. Looks like the realm get's
set in the ZPublisher component. It's not hardcoded, though. Here's a
snippet:

        elif os.environ.has_key('Z_REALM'):
	            realm=os.environ['Z_REALM']

> Anyone got any ideas?

So, if you can put up with changing the realm for your entire Zope install,
just set an environment variable Z_REALM='SST Tutor'

Ross
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