[Zope] Authentication

[Jay, Dylan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@philh.org]
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 04:51
> To: kedai
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Authentication
> 
> 
> kedai,
> 
> To my understanding, once a user is authenticated the 
> AUTHENTICATED_USER
> object is available everywhere the user goes.
> 
> I hope I'm right as my new site depends on it, ;¬)

This is true for cookie based authentication such as in UserDB however it is
NOT true for basic authentication (ie normal acl_user folder). Basic
authentication will only send authentication info when an area is
restricted. ie any areas that an anonymous user can view will have
AUTHENTICATED_USER set to "Anonymous User". There is nothing that can be
done about this unless you resort to cookies or someother user session
method (a BIG gap missing in Zope).


> Phil
> phil@philh.org
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On 
> Behalf Of kedai
> Sent: 09 October 1999 02:35
> To: Phil Harris
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Authentication
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 10:44:15AM +0100, Phil Harris wrote:
> > Sture,
> >
> > Have a look at http://d031.ml.uwcm.ac.uk/z/zGold.
> >
> > It's something I made as a demo for a conference I attended.
> >
> > There is a downloadable version that you can use to see how 
> I did what I
> > did.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Phil
> > phil@philh.org
> hi phil,
> i downloaded zGold and experimented/dig into the zope mine ( 
> well, it is to
> me).
> 
> however, i can't decide how i can bring the authenticated_name along
> everywhere i go.  tried setting a cookie, but can't decide 
> how to pass the
> cookie as the AUTHENTICATED_USER.name across other path; ie 
> when accessing
> other folders not in the zGold folders.
> 
> pointers?  docs?  thanks
> 
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