[Zope] maintaining consistent security settings across cloned sites

[Dieter Maurer]

Dennis Allison wrote at 2003-8-27 14:03 -0700:
 > Does this hold true for XMLRPC transfers as well? 

That depends what the function does which is called by XMLRPC ;-)

  It would be a world wonder when XMLRPC were able to remove
  just the security related attributes from the data stream...

 > 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_".


Dieter