[Zope] incredible authentication problem

[Jerome Alet]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Thomas B. Passin wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, I thought I did: he runs NS 4.xx (probably 4.7x seeing his
screenshot) under Linux.

For me it works fine under IE 4.xx (under NT4SP5), or NS 4.75 and 4.76
(under Linux)

bye,

Jerome Alet

> >
> > 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