[Zope] CookieCrumbler Authentication

[kittonian]

I created the cookie crumbler instance and indeed the login form says that
I've successfully logged in, however it's not exactly what I want here.  I
need to use my own login page, not CC's default login page.  Mine is
actually the index_html with a form element in it.  Where do I point that
form so that it calls to CC's authentication properly?  What do I call the
username and password text box form elements on my page?  How do I make it
go to the members folder upon successfully authing?  How do I set it up so
that I can do various error responses in my index_html page with the form on
it (i.e. people who fail to auth need to be taken back to that page and see
a message above the login form telling them that it failed to auth them)?

kittonian 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexis Roda [mailto:arv at si.urv.es] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:29 AM
To: kittonian at macgenius.net
Subject: Re: [Zope] CookieCrumbler Authentication

kittonian wrote:
> Ok.  I've got SimpleUserFolder all setup and working properly (even 
> authing users against a pgsql db which is cool).  Since SUF only 
> supports basic HTTP authentication and I need to have a login form and 
> use cookies to properly authenticate users it was suggested that I use 
> cookie crumbler.  I've got that installed and I sort of see how it all 
> works but I'm not sure how to proceed at the moment.

All you need is to add a CookieCrumble at the same level as the acl_users.
When you add the CC check the "create default forms" option so CC will
create some default forms (login page, logout page and failed authorization
page) and customize the forms to suit your needs.

When you try to access the protected area you'll get the CC's login page.
Your main index_html may be just:

<dtml-call expr="REQUEST.RESPONSE.redirect('url_to_protected_area')">



HTH
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