[Zope] Authenticating Users.

[Dieter Maurer]

Jason C. Leach writes:
 > How can I authenticate a user from a form. Pretty much exactly how
 > zope.org logges you in?
 > 
 > I have looked at both zope.org's login and logged_in (the action for
 > login) and don't see where it actually goes and checks the
 > username/password?
This check is performed in "UserFolder.validate" called
from "ZPublisher.BaseRequest.traverse".

Apparently, zope.org supports cookie based authentication.
This means, it does not use the standard Zope UserFolder
but another one supporting this type of authentication.


Dieter