Re: [Zope] Re: Every user should have the Anonymous role everywhere(was :Re: [Zope] Authentication, Anonymous and Public)

2000-07-05 Thread Stuart Bishop

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Dieter Maurer wrote:

 Chris Withers writes:
   Dieter Maurer wrote:
In Zope, each user has a set of roles.
Any user has the "Anonymous" role. Log-in users may have
additional roles.
   
   I'm not convinced this is true...
 The Content Manager Guide (Security, Authorization) states it
 this way:
 
   The "Anonymous" role, which all users have implicitly, 

Ahh... I thought I saw this somewhere. Either a bug in the documentation,
or in BasicUserFolder. Either way it should go in the collector. Since
few (if any) of the user folders use this, it may be best handled in
the Zope source if it is decided that it isn't a documentation error.

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Re: [Zope] Re: Every user should have the Anonymous role everywhere(was :Re: [Zope] Authentication, Anonymous and Public)

2000-07-05 Thread Chris Withers

Stuart Bishop wrote:
 or in BasicUserFolder. Either way it should go in the collector. 

Issue 1391, or in a slightly different phrasing, Issue 467

cheers,

Chris

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Re: [Zope] Authentication, Anonymous and Public

2000-07-04 Thread Stuart Bishop

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Dieter Maurer wrote:

 Capesius, Alan writes:
   I'm running into a problem after implementing jcNTUserFolder in a 
   subfolder of my site. Users can access the root level or particular 
   subfolders anonymously. Once a user accesses the protected 
   NTUserFolder, the credentials are saved in the browser. If the user 
   then returns to the anonymous area, they can no longer access th 
   folder due to the browser credentials.
   
   Does Zope have a mechanism equivalent to the Novell NDS Public access?
   that is to say:
   
   Anonymous = not authenticated.
   Everyone = authenticated users (that are members of the group)
   Public = authenticated and anonymous users.
 
 In Zope, each user has a set of roles.
 Any user has the "Anonymous" role. Log-in users may have
 additional roles.
 
 Thus, what you see, should not happen.

Users, by default, are not granted the 'Anonymous' role. If you
explicity grant the Anonymous role to your users you will get the behaviour
you want.

Earlier than current versions of GUF automatically did this, but I changed
it in the later releases after I saw the error pointed our by Ty or Phillip -
this may be a source of some confusion.

This email live from drizzly Queensland :-(

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Re: [Zope] Authentication, Anonymous and Public

2000-07-04 Thread Chris Withers

Dieter Maurer wrote:
 A user that does not log in, i.e. a user you know nothing of,
 gets the "Anonymous" role automatically (at least with "acl_users").
 A logged in user may not get the "Anonymous" role.
 
 This does not provide additional security, because this
 user may simply shut down his browser and access the page again
 as anonymous user.
 On the other hand, it may result in surprises: suddenly (after
 a log on) I can no longer do things that I was able to do
 before the log on.
 
 I think, this should be changed.

I agree, and I've said so, many times before ;-)

Chris

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Re: [Zope] Re: Every user should have the Anonymous role everywhere (was :Re: [Zope] Authentication, Anonymous and Public)

2000-07-03 Thread Chris Withers

Dieter Maurer wrote:
In Zope, each user has a set of roles.
Any user has the "Anonymous" role. Log-in users may have
additional roles.
  
   I'm not convinced this is true...

 The Content Manager Guide (Security, Authorization) states it
 this way:
 
   The "Anonymous" role, which all users have implicitly, 

...and check out the last time the Content Manager's Guide was updated
;-)

Seriously, though, I think this SHOULD be true, although I'm pretty sure
it isn't.

 This is natural, too.
 Why should a registered user have
 less authorization than an anonymous one.

Or, to put it another way, just because an acl_users folder doesn't know
anything about a user, why should that user not have the anonymous role?

 Thus, two reasons to change the Zope authorization, such
 that each user has implicitely the "Anonymous" role,
 if this is not the case now.

I totally agree :-)

Chris

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[Zope] Re: Every user should have the Anonymous role everywhere (was :Re: [Zope] Authentication, Anonymous and Public)

2000-07-02 Thread Dieter Maurer

Chris Withers writes:
  Dieter Maurer wrote:
   In Zope, each user has a set of roles.
   Any user has the "Anonymous" role. Log-in users may have
   additional roles.
  
  I'm not convinced this is true...
The Content Manager Guide (Security, Authorization) states it
this way:

  The "Anonymous" role, which all users have implicitly, 


This is natural, too.
Why should a registered user have
less authorization than an anonymous one.


Thus, two reasons to change the Zope authorization, such
that each user has implicitely the "Anonymous" role,
if this is not the case now.



Dieter

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[Zope] Every user should have the Anonymous role everywhere (was :Re: [Zope]Authentication, Anonymous and Public)Authentication, Anonymous and Public)

2000-07-01 Thread Chris Withers

Dieter Maurer wrote:
 In Zope, each user has a set of roles.
 Any user has the "Anonymous" role. Log-in users may have
 additional roles.

I'm not convinced this is true...

Quoting from the LoginManager CHANGES.TXT file:
 Generic User Source, like the GenericUserFolder product it was inspired by,
 gave all users the Anonymous role. This seems to be incorrect according to 
 what other user folders do, including the standard Zope version, so GUS now 
 no longer does this.

...which is why Alan experiences this problem. I've also run into it
just using a normal acl_users folder and I've been mentioning every few
months since I bumped into it back in March. Here's my opriginal post:

http://zope.nipltd.com/public/lists/dev-archive.nsf/ByKey/82AE22A20C7E88AE

I wish this could get sorted out as it makes security a nightmare unless
you use a web of local roles, which is painful and messy to maintain.

Is there any reason why every user shouldn't have the anonymous role for
every accessible page/object/thing visitable through a protocol?

cheers,

Chris

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RE: [Zope] Authentication, Anonymous and Public

2000-06-30 Thread Alan Capesius, MCSE

I thought the same. Perhaps the use of NT User causes this? 
Since the browser has the credentials to authenticate to NT and the higher folders are 
not aware of the 
NT User Folder...

Seems the only solutions are to use the NT User Folder at the root level.

Thanks

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 Capesius, Alan writes:
   I'm running into a problem after implementing jcNTUserFolder in a 
   subfolder of my site. Users can access the root level or particular 
   subfolders anonymously. Once a user accesses the protected 
   NTUserFolder, the credentials are saved in the browser. If the user 
   then returns to the anonymous area, they can no longer access th 
   folder due to the browser credentials.
   
   Does Zope have a mechanism equivalent to the Novell NDS Public access?
   that is to say:
   
   Anonymous = not authenticated.
   Everyone = authenticated users (that are members of the group)
   Public = authenticated and anonymous users.
 
 In Zope, each user has a set of roles.
 Any user has the "Anonymous" role. Log-in users may have
 additional roles.
 
 Thus, what you see, should not happen.
 
 
 Dieter
 


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