[Zope] How to set-up authentication of pages

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andres Corrada [mailto:andres@corrada.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 8:50 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] How to set-up authentication of pages
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 	I would be grateful for pointers to documentation that 
> shows how to
> require authentication of users accesing a web page. In 
> particular, how
> does the authentication work? I'm trying to use Apache with Zope and
> authenticate via Apache's mod_auth_mysql module and failing miserably.
> By writing <dtml-call "RESPONSE.setStatus('Unauthorized')"> I can
> trigger authentication but cancelling the authentication gets me the
> page! Thank you.

I think it would be much easier for you if you got rid of mod_auth_mysql
and let Zope handle all the authentication.

Descriptions of Users, Permissions, and Roles can be found in the
documentation section of the Zope site in the Zope Content Manager's
Guide.

-Michel