[Zope] [Fwd: Security problem]

[Chris McDonough]

Keith,

I'm forwarding your question to the Zope mailing list, as it's more
likely to be answered there... you can join by visiting the Resources -
Mailing Lists link on www.zope.org.

Thanks!


KSherman2@excite.com wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm new to zope, and I'm trying to figure out a problem.  I'm using zope
> as a pcgi process running on a remotely hosted sever.  It seems to be set up
> correctly, and I've had no problem accessing the website I'm working on (a
> squishdot site) with my username and password.  Unfortunately I cannot get
> it to be viewed anonymously.  I have changed the security permissions
> everywhere it seems to need to be changed, but the only html that its
> sending to anonymous users is the main zope index_html.  I've tried moving
> the Squishdot html to that spot and renaming it to index_html and I can't
> get it without a password request, (all security tab things were set to
> anon) I've also tried setting up other DTML documents but they won't serve
> either without an authorization request (neither in the same folder as
> 'manage' or an offshoot directory)  I'm running the solaris binary that
> you've got on your site, version 2.1.3.  As you can imagine that anonymous
> viewings would be a mission critical situation.  Nothing other than the
> manage/index_html can be served, and if I try to tick it by putting another
> DTML document in there, even that won't be served without first requesting a
> userid/password.  I know that my web hosting service is running Zeus, but I
> followed the instructions on their FAQ.  At one point was able to log in
> with IE5 without a password, but it still needed a userid.  I'm hoping
> there's some sort of easy fix for this.  I was wondering if maybe there's
> some sort of DTML tag that can force the serving of the page without going
> thru the authorization?  Thanks for any help.  I should also mention that I
> think you have one of the most exciting products out there right now for web
> development.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Keith Sherman
> 
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