[Zope] ZClass proxy roles - don't work?

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:14:26 +0200


Wade Leftwich writes:
 > I have a Product that contains several nested ZClasses. I'm trying to allow 
 > an anonymous user (actually a Xron object) to call a method on an inner class 
 > that will modify some object attributes. I have given the method a proxy role 
 > of Manager, but calling it still raises a login prompt. If I don't log in, I 
 > get 'not authorized to manage_changeProperties'.
You know, that a proxy role affects only the code executed directly
in the executable. It has no effect in calls done in the executable:
proxy roles are not inherited by the callee.


Dieter