[Zope] LDAPUserFolder at Zope root

[J Cameron Cooper]

Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On May 26, 2005, at 22:34, J Cameron Cooper wrote:
> 
>> Oscar Figueiredo wrote:
>>
>>
>>> this might be trivial but I just can't find a way to do it.  How  
>>> does one
>>> replace the initial UserFolder at Zope root with a  LDAPUSerFolder ?  
>>> I tried the dummy way : delete the acl_users  with an intent to 
>>> instanciate a
>>> LDAPUSerFolder afterwards but that locked me out in a way I could  do 
>>> nothing
>>> but recreate a new Zope instance...  skip-authentication-checking in
>>> etc/zope.conf didn't help...
>>>
>>
>> Do not do that. You don't want to get locked out of your Zope  because 
>> of LDAP problems.
> 
> 
> The emergency user always works. You can't lock yourself out due to  
> LDAP problems. If anyone sees a symptom like that on the current  
> LDAPUserFolder version it will be fixed right away because it is a bug.

Yes, you can always break into Zope that way. But that's not something I 
would want to plan to do, especially when the alternative is so easy.

		--jcc

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