Re: [Zope] Zope.org membership

2000-05-22 Thread mindlace

Graham Chiu wrote:
 
 Can it be changed so that it remembers both my userid and password, or
 just my password?  I usually remember who I am!

This is certainly true.  Unfortunately, Microsoft has made it so that
anyone with a modicum of javascript skills can read *all* your cookies
(if you use IE on Windows):

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/11/173257mode=nested

Now, there may not be hugely deletrious effects resulting from this, but
until cookies are handled in a sane manner, it's probably inappropriate
for us to be putting the password there.

If you're using IE 5 or Mozilla (NS 6) you can always tell it to
remember what you've entered into the password field.

Thanks,

~ethan fremen @ digicool  imeme

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Re: [Zope] Zope.org membership

2000-05-22 Thread mindlace

Graham Chiu wrote:
 
 I went there, clicked on the buttons, and got DNS errors.

This link should show you all the cookies you have at www.zope.org:

http://www.securityspace.com%2fexploit%2fexploit_1b.html%3fdomain==.www.zope.org/#exploit_1
 
 Well, you only have to save one half of a pair.  I would prefer you save
 the password.  The username I can remember :-)

Your username is publicly accessable from zope.org.  With your password,
if there's any way I can inferr your username- let's say the webmaster
grabbed the information while you were posting a comment on
zopeisevil.org- they can now do whatever you could do.

More to the point, with redirection and javascript, they can even make
you do it.  For zope.org membership as it is today, all they could do is
besmirch your good name in the community. In the future, as the things a
zope member can do expands, it could mess up more.

I will, however, look into other possibilities, like maybe your password
could be filled in server side, if some appropriate check can be made.

If you like, drop this issue in the Tracker, http://www.zope.org/Tracker
, so that you'll be updated when its status changes.

 If you're using IE 5 or Mozilla (NS 6) you can always tell it to
 remember what you've entered into the password field.
 
 Doesn't offer to save it for me on IE5. If it did, I wouldn't be asking.

Hmm.  It harasses me about it all the time.  Perhaps I'm using IE 5.5
(can't remember, I'm back in linux.)

~ethan

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