[Zope-CMF] A bug or ignorance?

[Andrea Botero Cabrera]

Hello Zope CMF masters,

I am "trying" to do some portals with this CMF thingy, I am not an
engineer... what I need right now is very straight forward help "for non
initiated people" someone who is not stupid though =)

I add a CMF site form the zope manager interface, after having a lot of
trouble with previous experiments, I have found that every time I
attempt to customize the index of your product (as it is) -I visit the
site from another window and another browser (anonymous user) and it
goes straight to the "login_form".

With out attempting to customize the index I am able to add content,
create users, change the skins, logos and edit all the contents of
everything and still anonymous users can see the welcome page

SO:

I delete the customized index and voila it works again.... after many
many tries I have found that if in the index-html that I customized (and
is now in the custom folder)  I delete the  <dtml-var news_box> it works
again!!!! with out this box the welcome page is available for anonymous
users and nobody gets asked the login name before pushing the "log in"
link.....

BUT

I am afraid I don't want to preserve the layout of the CMF, so I really
will like to customize the index but still have the news in there
somewhere..... is this a bug (?) or what I am doing wrong?

I have tried the procedure many times, with many CMF tests and I have
tried to check the documentation with no luck

I really , really appreciate any help - hints any of you can give

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Andrea Botero C
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Media Lab
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