[Zope3-Users] Pluggable authentication, a newbie's question

[David Johnson]

I'll try.  Your authenticator is registered as a Plugin in a PAU in  
your current site?  I'm not sure the cause without more details, but  
when I see this happen I've usually neglected one of the following:

1. The credentials plugin is not selected and added.
2. The authenticator plugin is not selected and added.
3. No permissions have been granted to the user, so even though the  
user is valid, they don't have permissions to do anything and so  
another authentication is being called as a backup.  This is easy  
enough to debug by putting print statements at strategic points in  
your plugin and see if and when they show up in the Zope log.

The PAU stuff has changed a lot over the history of Zope 3, so I've  
also found it to happen when using outdated methods such as the ones  
in Phillips first edition (which have since been updated to reflect  
the latest methods - thanks Phillip).

--
David


On Jan 28, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Alexei Ustyuzhaninov wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I try to create a plugin, which could authenticate users against an
> external database. Here is the code:
>
> from zope.component import provideUtility
> from zope.app.authentication import PluggableAuthentication
> from zope.app.authentication.interfaces import\
>    ICredentialsPlugin, IAuthenticatorPlugin
> from zope.app.authentication.session import SessionCredentialsPlugin
> from zope.app.security.interfaces import IAuthentication
> from mypackage.Authentication import MyAuthenticatorPlugin
>
> provideUtility(SessionCredentialsPlugin(), ICredentialsPlugin,\
>    'My Credentials Plugin')
> provideUtility(MyAuthenticatorPlugin(), IAuthenticatorPlugin,
>    'My Authenticator Plugin')
> pau=PluggableAuthentication('my_')
> pau.credentialsPlugins=('Cascade Credentials Plugin', )
> pau.authenticatorPlugins=('Cascade Authenticator Plugin', )
> provideUtility(pau, IAuthentication, 'My Pluggable-Authentication  
> Utility'
>
> This code is contained in the file mypackage/__init__.py, mypackage in
> turn is loaded via ZCML. Both plugins and PAU are registered
> successfully and I can access them with queryUtility. But the
> authentication is carried through the standard mechanism and
> MyAuthenticatorPlugin isn't even called.
>
> Could any good soul help me with this case?
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Alexei
>
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