Casey Duncan wrote: > This maybe more 2.6 (or even 2.5.1 final) fodder: > > I notice that in a vanilla Zope install, Anonymous users are allowed access > through WebDAV. This is bad for two reasons: > > 1. From a security perspective this discloses way too much information about > your site to the outside world. > > 2. Due to vagarities of WebDAV authentication, it makes it impossible to edit > anything, because I guess the WebDAV implementation is too stupid to force a > login when you try to lock something as anonymous (instead is returns a 500 > server error). To get around this you have to create or copy an object to > force a login. This problem disappears if everyone must login to access > WebDAV at all. > > So the question is: Is there a good reason why WebDAV access is granted to > anonymous by default? If not I vote we change it.
Agreed, the way it is now is just wrong, and I was shocked to see it wide-open like that. Barry _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )