[Zope] Zope Permissions

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Thu Jun 9 14:16:40 EDT 2005


Nikko Wolf wrote at 2005-6-8 17:22 -0600:
> ...
>I did as you suggested but (in hindsight stupidly!) did not ensure that 
>anyone else had permissions to "View" and "Access contents information" 
>-- so even logged in as a Manager I could not access the "/Home" folder 
>-- including the Security tab where I would go to fix the problem.  
>Which seems like a design flaw, but....
>
>Fortunately, http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Misc/SECURITY.txt/view 
>explains about using the emergency user via "zpasswd.py" script, so I 
>fixed things but not until after a good bit of elevated blood pressure 
>and a lot of profanity.

Thus, you now learned that any security breakage can be fixed
with a single concept: the "Emergency user"...

-- 
Dieter


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