[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] Authenticating with acl_users

[Sondre Rønjom]

What I meant by "dont want to use any products that does not come with a 
clean Zope install", was that the system should work with only having the 
default products in a new fresh clean Zope install ;)
Thanks anyway

/sondre

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

> by the way, please do not cross-post to several lists. i am restricting=
 
> this to the zope list because it is more appropriate.
> 
> i don't think you will have any success tring to "use" user folder 
> methods that have to do with authentication outside of the user folder 
> itself, period. from your description it sounds like all you need is a 
> user folder implementation that handles cookies. i suggest you 
> investigate the CookieCrumbler product (if you are married to your 
> specific user folder, that is) or you use a user folder that has cookie=
 
> hanling built in.
> 
> i'm not sure what that "dont want to use any products that does not 
> come with a clean Zope install" is all about. most zope products 
> install by dropping them in the Products folder of either your instance=
 
> or in the zope software tree. it doesn't get any cleaner than that.
> 
> jens
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, Mar 8, 2003, at 12:30 US/Eastern, Sondre Rønjom wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm creating a python product - which needs to be authenticated; and I
> > dont want to use any products that does not come with a clean Zope 
> > install
> > - so I user Simple User Folder and define two roles admin user and
> > ordinary user. I just want a user to login via login form, check 
> > username
> > and password with the acl_users user list and set the user to
> > AUTHENTICATED_USER if username and password is correct. Actually I just
> > want to access the methods which the pop-up authenticator use when one
> > does /manage.  To me it looks like validate() from 
> > AccessControl/User.py does this for you, but Im not
> > sure how to use the method.
> >
> > /sondre
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> >
> >> what exactly is it you are trying to achieve? maybe someone can help=
 
> >> if
> >> you let us know what the real motivation is.
> >>
> >> jens
> >>
> >>
> >> On Saturday, Mar 8, 2003, at 11:42 US/Eastern, Sondre Rønjom wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ive been looking through AccessControl/User.py to understand the
> >>> validate() methods paramteres. Im not sure what to put inside the
> >>> request,
> >>> and how to do it. I have been testing around, but I can only manage=
 
> >>> to
> >>> do
> >>> authenticate(), but this only tells if the user is valid and has the
> >>> right
> >>> password. The thing is, I also want to set AUTHENTICATED_USER, but 
> >>> not
> >>> sure how to to this, but I have the idea validate() does all this for
> >>> you,
> >>> if you pass the right parameters. I have been searching at zope.org=
 
> >>> and
> >>> google.com for a long time now, but cant find very much useful. The
> >>> only
> >>> parameters I have put in the REQUEST are __ac_user and __ac_password,
> >>> but
> >>> I know I also need object value and physical container of the object,
> >>> but
> >>> dont know how to find this.
> >>>
> >>> /Sondre
> >>
> >>
> >
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