[Zope] Don't delete your users without care...

Florent Guillaume fg@nuxeo.com
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:47:44 +0000 (UTC)


Something I'd like to figure out when I have time is, why does the
security machinery fail in such ways when the object is not owned by a
valid user ?

Florent


> > It finally dawned on me that all the skins and so on were owned by the
> > now nonexistent admin in the sub-acl_users, and that this caused all
> > those problems.
> >
> > I re-added him. I probably could have "taken ownership" of all skins and
> > CMF machinery from the admin at the root but I wanted to play it safe.
> 
> We had that kind of problem some time ago, just right before a product
> shipment. It drove us crazy. Maybe it should be documented somewhere. Or
> even better (though probably a little bit harder to do): When a user is
> deleted, there should be a warning if he still owns stuff.
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