[Zope] The not-very-Super user

[Brian Lloyd]

> > > I notice there were some CVS checkins about renaming it to the
> > > 'emergency user'. Cool, does this mean you're going to be 
> able to define
> > > a manager at install-time?
> > 
> > Yes - the whole lame login-as-superuser-create-a-manager-and-relogin
> > process will be gone in 2.3. At install time you'll create a first
> > manager and just use that. 
> 
> Yay!
> 
> As Max asked, any 2.3 timeframe? Python Scripts and no Super User alone
> make it _very_ enticing :-))

I would reeeeeaaally like to see a beta by the end of 
Dec. - but don't quote me yet. Part of what I'm doing 
today is figuring what the resource situation looks like.


> > He can un-screw permissions or users if you ever manage to
> > get totally locked out of your site. Think of it as a user mounted
> > in a box on the wall labeled "in case of emergency, break glass".
> 
> How does this differ from a normal manager and how would you 'create a
> super user' as you descriebd in the bit I snipped?

An example might be: if somehow someone took all permissions
away from all of your managers, they'd be out of luck. The 
superuser could still log in and fix that though.

I don't know the exact details of how a superuser is created 
yet - I expect that you will run zpasswd.py with a special 
option though (and restart). The relevant install docs will 
be updated to outline this when that branch is merged.


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com
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