[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Users and Security

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A comment to the paragraph below was recently added via http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current/Security.stx#3-105

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      When a user creates a Zope object, they *own* that object.  An
      object that has no owner is referred to as *unowned.*
      Ownership information is stored in the object itself.  This
      is similar to how UNIX keeps track of the owner of a file.

        % Anonymous User - Sep. 23, 2002 8:21 pm:
         a user ... they own??

         How can an object be created without an owner?
         Which objects are not owned by their creator?

        % Anonymous User - Oct. 11, 2002 3:05 am:
         I accidently took ownership of the root object, so now every visitor is required to give a user name and
         password to view any underlying objects.
         Is there a way to set back the ownership to unowned?