[Zope] Login by webform/session variables?

[Andrew Kenneth Milton]

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| Hi all.

Hey there.

| It seems to me that a user can log on by a form and be authenticated by 
| LoginManager, for example.  But that only gives them a role (I believe), 
| let's say authorized_user.  But, what I need is a way to remember WHO they 
| are, not just what role they have.  I'm very new to both Zope and web design 
| in general, so any help would be appreciated.

There is a user object, available in most places called AUTHENTICATED_USER,
sometimes you need to explicitly reference it as REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER

To get the username, you simply call AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()

You don't need to set any variables to know who is logged in, Zope takes
care of that for you.

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