[ZODB-Dev] Re: Can't mount acl_users with DBTab

[Chris Withers]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> 1. You can't add the mount point, because a DBTab mount point isn't 
>> one of the things the emergency user can own, and you have to be 
>> working as the emergency user to replace the root acl_users folder. 
>> Temporarily commenting out the code which cehcks this was a passabel 
>> workaround for me.
> 
> It would probably work to just make mount points unownable in Zope's 
> security model.  That's a two-line change to DBTab.

Cool, will that be in the next release?

>> 2. Once you have mounted a DBTab acl_users at the root, you can't log 
>> in with any users it supplies. I couldn't get to the bottom of this 
>> one :-S
> 
> Interesting.  This doesn't work because the attribute that Zope actually 
> looks for, __allow_groups__, needs to link to the mounted database, and 
> I bet it doesn't.  Hmph. :-/

How and where does it need to be mounted?

What would be the best way to solve this problem?

cheers,

Chris