[Zope] maintaining consistent security settings across cloned sites

Dennis Allison allison at sumeru.stanford.EDU
Wed Aug 27 15:03:28 EDT 2003


Does this hold true for XMLRPC transfers as well? 

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Dennis Allison wrote at 2003-8-26 10:59 -0700:
>  > Me too!  We've seen problems with the security settings after syncs.  I
>  > suspect that the security settings transfer but the proxy settings
>  > don't--but that's a guess based on anecdotal evidence.
> 
> It definitely is wrong.
> 
>   Import/Export uses the same serializing mechanism as the ZODB
>   itself (pickling).
> 
>   In all these cases, all attributes with the exception
>   of those prefixed with "_p_" or "_v_" are pickled.
>   Security settings (on instances) are implemented as
>   instance attributes starting with "_" but not "_p_" or
>   "_v_".
> 
> The problem you (probably) observed must have had a different cause.
> 
> 
> Dieter
> 
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