[Zope] Replacing Root Acl_Users

[Jim Penny]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:50:48PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:

However, I would recommend that you never do this.  The only user(s)
that belongs in root is/are your top-level administrator(s).  Create a
protected folder, or something like that to put your real users
in.  Use whatever user-folder you want here.

It is pretty general experience that users do not care
about the extra component in the path.  All they want is an URL
that pops them to wherever they should begin.

But, you never want to have your admin account locked out because a 
user folder is broken.  And acl_users remains the most tested user
folder.

You do have to make sure that Data.fs is well-protected!

Jim Penny

> I was *positive* that there was a howto about this exact topic.  Not
> only was I positive, but I even remember who wrote it, and basically
> what the title was.  It was written by Evan Gibson and titled "Using
> Generic User Folder at the Root" or something like it.  It however seems
> to have completely and utterly disappeared.  It involved some unpleasant
> steps, I do remember.
> 
> Perhaps you can track down the howto, sorry.
> 
> - C
> 
> 
> Chris Bruce wrote:
> > 
> > I am sure this question has been asked before, but I can find any
> > information on how to replace the root acl_users folder with something
> > like CookieUserFolder.  Can some one tell me how or point me to some
> > docs?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
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