[Zope] role, user defined roles, and inclusion

[robert]

Cliff Ford wrote:

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> Dieter Maurer wrote:
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>> robert wrote at 2005-3-31 07:22 +0200:
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>>> Is my assumption that granting a permission to Anonymous means 
>>> granting it to anybody correct?
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>> Correct.
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> Actually, I don't think that is strictly true! And it reminds me of a 
> period of confusion I went through a few months ago, when I was 
> convinced that either I did not understand how roles were supposed to 
> work or that there were bugs in the implementation. It turned out that 
> I had cut and paste a folder with its own own View permissions into 
> another folder with incompatible View permissions. I have forgotten 
> the exact details but I think I had the Manager role in the outer 
> folder but only the Authenticated role in the inner folder. I had 
> totally forgotten that I had been fiddling with the View permissions 
> days or weeks before. So for the original questioner: check that you 
> have not shot yourself in the foot too!
>
Yeas that can happen. However it does not deviate from the stated 
behaviour. In your case the needed permission was NOT granted to anonymous.

Robert