[Zope3-Users] How do I automatically login a user

[Darryl Cousins]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 12:50 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:33 PM, kevin gill wrote:
> > During my registration process I want to automatically login the  
> > user (in
> > Zope3).
> >
> > I can see how to programatically logout a user using
> > ILogout().logout(request), but I don't see an equivalent for logging  
> > in.
> >
> > I intend to use session cookies for tracking users.
> 
> 
> The most straightforward way is to interact with the session- 
> credentials extractor directly to get it to save credentials for you.  
> Unfortunately, the session-credentials extractor doesn't provide an  
> API to do this.  This would be a worthy addition.  We have an internal  
> session-credential extractor that does this.  I don't have time to  
> work this into the version in zope.app.authentication, but if someone  
> wants to work on this, I'd be happy to check my code into the sandbox  
> for someone to work from.  Note that it also stores sha-encoded  
> credentials. The current credentials extractor stores plain-text  
> passwords in the session data which is extremely lame.


Hi Jim,

Is the code already available for a look? I've played with several
credentials options and would very much like to see what you have here.

Regards,
Darryl


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> Jim
> 
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> Jim Fulton
> Zope Corporation
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