[Zope] Security glitch on user-editing form

Alexander Staubo alex@mop.no
Tue, 11 May 1999 23:25:40 +0200


Great; I'm sorry I wasn't aware of this.

Question: Do you need a module for NT authentication, or are you writing
this already? (In case you need contributions.)

Alexander Staubo
http://www.mop.no/~alex/
mailto:redhand@mop.no

>-----Original Message-----
>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Rob
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>Sent: 11. mai 1999 22:54
>To: 'Alexander Staubo'
>Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
>Subject: RE: [Zope] Security glitch on user-editing form
>
>
>>  Any one-way encryption method will work, but why not modularized
>>  authentication support? Something that would permit you to
>>  use anything
>
>Already there in user folders! :^) We happen to have implemented an
>internal Zope authentication/authorization database.  Additionally, at:
>
>http://www.zope.org/Download/Unsupported
>
>there's an etcUserFolder (auth against /etc/passwd type files) and a
>UserDB (auth against an RDBMS) and sometime soon there might be an
>LDAPUserFolder based on something that smells a lot like an LDAP
>Database Adapter.
>
>>  from one-way-encryption to Kerberos to LDAP, but not
>>  necessarily just a
>>  fixed algorithm. LDAP is an interesting possibility, but I
>don't like
>>  the idea of being stapled to LDAP -- it's overkill for most
>>  installations.
>
>I agree totally!  My _real_ question was, in the internal User Folder
>component, whether to store passwords a)  in their original form or b)
>as a hash or c) as a selectable option ...  Of course, the c) is
>probably the best answer!
>
>--Rob
>
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