[Zope] Trouble with Generic User Folder

[Michiel Toneman]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Matt Goodall wrote:

> Michiel Toneman wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been trying to get something sensible done with
> > GenericUserFolder, but keep on running into this problem:
> > 
> > -----------
> > 2000-02-22T16:15:19 ERROR(200) GUF
> > http://newserver:8080/test_access/acl_users/userAuthenticate raised
> > an exception (('Unauthorized', 'You are not authorized to access
> > <em>SQL_get_password</em>.', <traceback object at 85ec318>))
> > -----------
> > 
> > SQL_get_password is a ZSQL method like:
> > 
> > ---------------------------
> > SELECT password as real_password FROM users_tmp
> >   WHERE
> >      name=<dtml-sqlvar username type=string>
> > ---------------------------
> > with as Argument "username"
> > 
> > I've given all possible permissions to the SQL method,
> > but no dice :(
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> I think you need to give the userAuthenticate and userList methods a
> proxy role of "Anonymous".
> 
> Cheers, Matt.
> 

I think you're correct. James W. Howe suggested the "Manager" proxy role,
and everything works great now. 

Thanks from a very happy and relieved Zoper ;-),

Greetings,

Michiel

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