[Zope] Zope cookies data point

[Christopher N. Deckard]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 16:25:13 +0000 (UTC), Florent Guillaume spoke
forth:

> Christopher N. Deckard <cnd@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
> > I kind of think that that problem is fine.  Why should the
> > "admin" account be shared to begin with?  Create users who have
> > the access that they need to manage the system.  Then there is
> > no stepping on feet, and you know who did something.  Leave the
> > "admin" account for when things are really borken.  Or does that
> > go against what that account is for?  I'm not sure our Zope
> > server even has the ability for an "admin" account.  :-)
> 
> If you create executable content (like DTML or python scripts)
> using a"normal" account that's Manager, and if later that account
> is removed for some reason, you're hosed: the executable content
> won't have any executable roles and so won't work.
> 
> That's why having a shared, permanent, "admin" account can be a
> good thing.

Ah, I guess we have have that problem, but there are enough people
that have Manager in the root to fix things and take ownership of
objects owned by no-long-users.

-Chris