Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-24 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
vio, for your situation the simplest thing would be to use the CookieUserFolder (see http://www.dataflake.org/software/cookieuserfolder) which is as simple as the standard user folder and adds cookie-capability and customizable login and logout forms. no need to get all tripped up in

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-24 Thread vio
Excellent! Precisely what I'm looking for. Thanks! Vio * Jens Vagelpohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020124 10:46]: vio, for your situation the simplest thing would be to use the CookieUserFolder (see http://www.dataflake.org/software/cookieuserfolder) which is as simple as the standard user

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-24 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
vio, make sure you read the README so you don't lock youself out if the login form does not have the correct input fields. jens On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 10:55 , vio wrote: Excellent! Precisely what I'm looking for. Thanks! Vio * Jens Vagelpohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020124 10:46]:

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-24 Thread Dan L. Pierson
--On Thursday, January 24, 2002 01:35:56 AM -0500 vio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exUserFolder installed ok, so I'll give it a test drive also. But some hints on debugging LoginMgr would be also appreciated. Personally, I'd stay away from LoginManager. It depends on ZPatterns, a very

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-23 Thread Leonardo Rochael Almeida
Hi Vio, By the contents of your message, you seem to be a little off track w.r.t. the way authentication works between the browser and Zope. By now you seem to have discovered that the browser sends the user credentials whenever it fetches a page. If you aren't using a custom user folder that

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-23 Thread vio
First, thanks for your time on this thread, everybody! * Leonardo Rochael Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020123 19:42]: Hi Vio, By the contents of your message, you seem to be a little off track w.r.t. the way authentication works between the browser and Zope. By now you seem to have

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-23 Thread Leonardo Rochael Almeida
Hi vio, Pardon our insistence in helping you out, but you asked to be told if something in your description smelt rotten and, besides the fact that yes, you are reinventing the wheel (and reinventing it square, by the way :-), there isn't a single thing in the scenario you described below that

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-23 Thread Paul Erickson
All the user folders can be confusing, but I think in the long run, you'd be better off if you grabbed one and figured out how it worked. I've used LoginManager, and basically, I create a folder for my project, don't put the standard acl_users in it, because you want to create an object

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-23 Thread vio
* Leonardo Rochael Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020124 00:03]: Hi vio, Pardon our insistence in helping you out, but you asked to be told if something in your description smelt rotten and, besides the fact that yes, you are reinventing the wheel (and reinventing it square, by the way :-),

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-21 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
the user gets modified automatically, provided you use common login-methodology and a user folder that supports it. you don't set the user manually. jens On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 12:35 , vio wrote: Hi, Does anybody know what is the method call to modify the AUTHENTICATED_USER

Re: [Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-21 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
the user folder does this switch. it's not something you should do manually. by the way, since replying to your previous email to me bounced back ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is unknown) i'm uncluding that here: ** vio, i'm not sure what user folder products you were looking at, the

[Zope-dev] REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER question

2002-01-20 Thread vio
Hi, Does anybody know what is the method call to modify the AUTHENTICATED_USER attribute? I am unable to trace where REQUEST feeds data for its AUTHENTICATED_USER attribute. Some context to my question: I am using a custom method to authenticate users coming to my site. So when the user logs