[Zope] Password Overlap

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Dan,

how about making your "magic" password split say on the
first 5 characters (internally) and use it for user-id
and the remaining part as password?

Regards
Tino

--On Montag, 25. November 2002 11:10 -0800 Dan Shafer <dan@danshafer.com> 
wrote:

> I have painted myself into a nifty corner.
>
> My client's site is protected at the root by an acl folder. Those who are
> not in the acl folder have view privileges only. This works fine.
>
> I just added a new feature to my client's site. He wants this capability
> available to anyone to whom he gives a specific password. I wrote a
> Python script that generates the password and a page for my client to
> auto-generate a new random password and to see what the current password
> is. This works fine as well.
>
> The problem is, since I'm not even asking people for a user name here,
> only a password, and since the site is protected from access via the acl
> folder, his clients can't get past the password screen because the acl
> logic presents a challenge for a user name and password which, of course,
> these folks don't have.
>
> It occurred to me at one point that I could define an acl user called,
> e.g., "client" and then perhaps revise the Python script so that instead
> of storing the newly generated password in a DTML document, it would
> update the password property for that user in the acl folder. But it
> wasn't very obvious to me how to do that. And while I don't *mind* having
> them have to type in a generic user name, it's more elegant if they don't
> have to do so.
>
> What's the easiest way to address this issue? I looked through a year's
> worth of email digests and I searched zope.org, but I couldn't find an
> answer.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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