[Zope] Check Security Permissions for a User?

[Florent Guillaume]

It looks strange to me too. Please report this in the Collector,
http://collector.zope.org/Zope


Florent

Maik Jablonski  <maik.jablonski@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> I played with the following code in a dtml-method to check if a user has a 
> certain permission (e.g. "Manage Properties"):
> 
> <dtml-var "_.SecurityGetUser().has_permission('Manage Properties',this())">
> 
> This results in 1 if the User has the permission or None if not... 
> everything is fine so far.
> 
> But when I do check for a nonexisting permission, like:
> 
> <dtml-var "_.SecurityGetUser().has_permission('Really Unknown 
> PermisionXXX',this())">
> 
> the result would be 1 too... What is the reason for this SecurityPolicy? 
> Why not an exception? Or 0?
> 
> thank you for advice
> 
> Maik Jablonski.
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