I've just tried this on a completely different server. I also made sure that 'access contents information' was set to 'manager' and 'authenticated'.<br><br>The same thing happens. The main password doesn't work and also you still get the main page contents if you keep cancelling or pressing return on the login box.
<br><br>Complete nightmare. This was the reason I wanted to go with Apache security as it's more robust.<br><br>Michael<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">michael nt milne</b> <
<a href="mailto:michael.milne@gmail.com">michael.milne@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks for the advice. I'll have another look at the security settings but this is undoubtedly an issue. The superuser password not working is the main one etc. But ultimately my comments on usabiltity should be taken on board because Zope security is overly complex.
<div><span class="e" id="q_1094b840bbde5e7b_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dieter Maurer</b> <<a href="mailto:dieter@handshake.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
dieter@handshake.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
michael nt milne wrote at 2006-2-8 16:48 +0000:<br>>I have major problems here trying to set-up authentication over a whole<br>>Plone site using Zope. Using my superuser account I've navigated to the site<br>>root page in the ZMI where it lists all the site pages and objects etc. I've
<br>>then gone into security, scrolled down to the bottom and for the 'View'<br>>option I have tried all combinations of 'Manager', 'Authenticated' and<br>>'Aquire'. It simply won't work.<br><br>You can use "VerboseSecurity" to analyse difficult authorization
<br>problems.<br><br>"VerboseSecurity" is an integral part of Zope from 2.8 on.<br>Previously, it has been a separate product.<br><br>--<br>Dieter<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></span></div>-- <br>
<span class="sg">Michael
</span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michael