[Zope] acquisition

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:44:44 +0100


Andrew Perella writes:
 > I have a 2 zwiki sites with site2 as a child of site1
 > I do this to inherit the look and feel of site1.
 > 
 > 
 > Now site2 does not contain standard_wiki_header etc.
 > Instead it inherits this from site1.
 > 
 > This is good - and works.
 > 
 > Infortunately this standard_wiki_header calls a python script object at the
 > same level as itself (ie site1)
 > 
 > Now briefly, site2 continued to work calling this method.
 > 
 > I then played around with security settings to not allow annonymous access
 > to either site, and also added extra users and roles to create greater
 > security for site2.
 > 
 > At this point site2 could not access the python script as before - even when
 > logged on as superuser will all permisions.
Is your "superuser" a user defined in an "acl_users" inside "site2"?

Then, it cannot access objects outside "site2" unless they are
accessible by "Anonymous".
This is a feature, the Zope developers worked hard to get implemented....


Dieter