[Zope] Help with UserDB

Jason Jones jason_j@countermedia.org
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:13:20 -0500


> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:09:04PM -0500, Jason Jones wrote:
> > I just changed my user database schema to match that of the UserDB
product,
>
> First note: Jason, you can change UserDb to match your schema, instead
> of the other way around. I didn't notice this the first time I fired
> up UserDb. You open your acl_users folder, and click the "Properties"
> tag. Then, you can edit the ZSQL methods used to access the db. Unless
> you just mean you added a field somewhere to store Zope roles in, and
> already knew all this, sorry. ;-)
>

Yeah, basically all I did was add the roles and domains fields.

>
> > and installed UserDB with cookie-based authentication. Immediately after
> > doing that everything became inaccessible. Now, I get the response:
>
> I've got it as the toplevel, as well. You sure the superuser doesn't
> work? It still does for me.
>

You mention you are using basic authentication, that worked alright for me
too, it's when I switched to cookies that everything screwed up.


> Although UserDb is an unsupported product, it strikes me that the
> superuser login is supposed to bypass the toplevel User Folder, whatever
> it does. Otherwise, you can't use it to fix broken User Folders ;-)
>

Don't I know it....

Jason Jones
jason_j@countermedia.org