[Zope] CookieCrumbler: Login a user without a "login_form" Template

[Jens Vagelpohl]

Set a cookie just like the CookieCrumbler does.

jens


On Sunday, Oct 12, 2003, at 08:00 US/Eastern, nicogrubert at arcor.de 
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am using Cookie Crumbler to authenticate users in Zope.
> Am I right that Cookie Crumbler needs a "login_form" with fields 
> 'username'
> and 'password' template to login users in Zope or is it possible to 
> login a
> user in Zope without such a template, e.g. in an External Method ?
>
> In Zope, I have a folder containing:
> - cookie_authentication object
> - a simple Page Template "inputForm.html" with an input textfield 'qry'
> - an External Method "loginUser"
> - a "logged_in" Page Template the users sees if he is looged in 
> successfully
> - an acl_users folder containing 1 user "testuser" (password: 123456, 
> roles:
> Manager)
>
> The Page Template "inputForm.html" contains a submit button which 
> calls the
> External Method "loginUser".
> In the External Method I want to login the currently anonymous user in 
> Zope
> with username "testuser" and password "123456" (This user can be found 
> in the
> acl_users folder).
>
> How can I do that? How do I need to modfify the REQUEST object to tell 
> the
> Cookie Crumbler that the anonymous user now needs to be logged in?
>
>
> my External Method looks like this:
>
> ----------
> def loginUser(self, REQUEST=None):
>     "login a user into Zope"
>     qry = REQUEST.get('qry', '')
>     if qry == 'whatever':
>         # login user "testuser" in Zope
>         #... maybe something like ???:
>         ?REQUEST['__ac_name'] = 'testuser'
>         ?REQUEST['__ac_password'] = '123456'
>         ?return self.logged_in(REQUEST)
>     else:
>         # ... user not logged in
>
> ------------
>
> Any idea how I can login the current anonymous user in Zope within this
> External Method?
>
> thanks in advance,
> -nico
>
>
>
>
>
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