Re: [Zope3-dev] Re: rdb: Disappearing Connection

2006-01-13 Thread Brian Sutherland
Hi, Thanks for posting this, it saved me quite a few hours. On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:23:36PM -0500, Jim Washington wrote: def isConnected(self): try: self._v_connection.ping() except: # not connected or ping did not restore MySQL connection

Re: [Zope3-dev] Principal Comparison and/or References

2006-01-13 Thread Gary Poster
On Jan 13, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Jeff Shell wrote: ... With all of the other principal / group mini-proposals going on, does there need to be a way to strongly (if that's the right word) compare a principal looked up from an id that came out of... well, somewhere (a transaction log record, a

Re: [Zope3-dev] Bug or Feature in security proxy / checker code?

2006-01-13 Thread Jim Fulton
Martijn Faassen wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Christian Theune wrote: [snip] Is this intentional? Yes. self is never proxied. I'll just note as a data-point that this surprised me as well. I noticed that some things in Zope 3 weren't giving me authorization errors as I expected, even

[Zope3-dev] proposal: allow contained PAU plugins

2006-01-13 Thread Gary Poster
Background: The pluggable authentication utility (hereafter called PAU; found in zope.app.authentication) allows two kinds of plugins, credential plugins and authenticator plugins. The PAU currently keeps track of the names that it should use for these two types of plugins, and then

Re: [Zope3-dev] proposal: allow contained PAU plugins

2006-01-13 Thread Gary Poster
On Jan 13, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Roger Ineichen wrote: Hi Gary Hey Roger [...] All arguments are Ok for me. Cool. But I think the PAU at all is to complex and this whoul not change. Do we really need such a complex authentication module in z3? Well, I know it has come in handy for us.