[Zope] AUTHENTICATED_USER

[richard at scholarpack.com]

Hmmm, I just stumbled upon some deprecation warnings in a google for 
authenticated_user and that security getUser...equivalent should be used 
instead. 

Something like this - http://www.mail-archive.com/zope@zope.org/msg21432.html


Quoting Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>:

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> On 05/13/2011 03:36 PM, Richard Harley wrote:
> > Please could someone tell me why AUTHENTICATED_USER was deprecated in
> 
> > favour of the python security module? A quick google says "because it
> 
> > can be replaced"..but this isn't really a good in depth explanation?
> If 
> > a request was manipulated to include another AUTHENTICATED_USER, 
> > wouldn't Zope just error out anyway?
> 
> What makes you say that AUTHENTICATED_USER is deprecated?  ZPublisher
> sets and uses the variable in the environment without any deprecations.
> 
> 
> Tres.
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