[Zope] GenericUserFolder has locked me out.

[John E . Vincent]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 04:48:56PM +1300, John Morton spake unto the masses:
> Curtis Maloney writes:
>  > Maybe I wasn't reading the docs closely enough,  but once I dropped that
>  > GenericUserFolder into my folder, that's it.  the end.
>  
> RTFM. Especially with alternative acl_user products as it's trivial to 
> lock yourself out if you replace the base level acl_users folder. This 
> is particularly important with GUF as it takes a fair amount of work
> to get a usable system built out of it that will let you log in and do 
> things.
>  
>  > I can't get in, even as the superuser.  I can't FTP in.  Removing the GUF
>  > product just stops IT from stopping me getting in, but it seems to have dug its
>  > claws into some other hooks, so I STILL can't get in.
>  > 
>  > Ever tried removing an object from an export in XML?  I'm finding it a little
>  > tricky to follow.  Even so, when i try to import it again, Zope barfs up some
>  > complaint about a KeyError on "id".
>  > 
>  > So... can anyone suggest how I might recover from this disaster?
> 
> Here's what I suggested to the last unfortunate victim, based on by own dimwitted
> experiences :-)
Okay I wasn't THAT dimwitted ;) Just a bit loopy that day. 
As to getting it fixed follow John Morton's instructions and all will be well. 
Oh....and don't let it happen again ;) jk

> Note that this may not work with Zope 2.1.4 (I did it 
> on 2.1.2 and upgraded after that).
> 
> http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-February/019389.html
> 
> John.
> 
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