[Zope] incredible authentication problem

[Thomas B. Passin]

I had this same problem on Windows using Internet Explorer.  It appears that
IE had some obscure bug that somehow caused this behavior.  It went away
when I upgraded to the latest version of IE.

Try some other version of a browser, preferably the latest version, and see
of that fixes it.

You didn't say what system your user is running.

Cheers,

Tom P

Jerome Alet wrote -
>
> I'm in the following situation and can't explain it:
>
> I've created a user in the root's acl_users folder of a fresh Zope
> 2.3.1beta2 installation.
>
> this user has an "almost" manager local role in a sub-sub folder of the
> root one, but no role anywhere else.
>
> If I login as this user from home or at work, respectively under Debian
> Potato with Netscape 4.75 and 4.76, then it works fine and the management
> screens are shown to me.
>
> If I tell the real user to try to connect as this Zope user from his home,
> then only the top and left management frames are shown to him correctly:
> the right frame shows the "View" of the folder, not its contents.
>
> What I can't explain is that in both situations we log in using the very
> same username and password, but the result is different for him. On a
> screenshot he sent to me, the top frame shows the good username, and when
> I personnally lo in with this username the top frame shows it is correct
> (anbd the same) too.
>
> Since I've created the folder as the manager (admin account) of the whole
> Zope installation, is it possible that Netscape caches my authentification
> information, which isn't cached for him because he never logs in as admin
> ? I must say that he and I have quitted and relaunched Netscape several
> times during several days, but the problem persists.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know his Netscape's version, and we can't try IE.
>
> Could this be related to cookies, javascript or proxy cache settings ?
>