[Zope] Zpatterns / SmartObjects

[Steve Spicklemire]

Hi Fred,

Yes.. this is a good point! I tried to submit a patch to LM for this 
many moons ago... but instead these days I just add it in the 
'userRoles' method.

http://www.eby-sarna.com/pipermail/zpatterns/2001-July/000098.html

take care,
-steve

On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 06:29  PM, fred@ontosys.com wrote:

> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:39:05PM -0700, ra@burningman.com wrote:
>> Steve Spicklemire wrote:
>>>
>>> Hmm.. well, this is a login manager problem I've not tickled, since 
>>> I've
>>> been using userXXX methods defined in the UserSource rather than
>>> SkinScript, thought I've used plenty of SkinScript in ZPatterns/2.5.x
>>> and not seen any problems with acquisition/visibility before. I'm
>>> guessing you set "member_name" as the "load by accessing" attribute?
>>> Hmm.. I just tried something to test this and it seemed to work for 
>>> me.
>>> Are you using TransactionAgents005?
>>
>> No, I'm using a very old 0.0.1.  Where do I get a more recent version?
>> Searches on zope.org and google don't help me.
>>
>> I'm heartened to hear that you (and others) have this working.  I'll
>> start from scratch w/ recent versions and will give it another go.  If
>> it all works, I'd love to package the whole kit-n-kaboodle up to help
>> keep others from having to go through what I have...
>
> This may be unrelated to the specific problem you're facing, but I
> just ported a LoginManager-based application from Zope 2.3.x to Zope
> 2.5.1 and I have a suggestion:
>
> 	Make sure that the authentication functions add the new
> 	'Authenticated' role to the list of roles for each
> 	authenticated user.
>
> I spent several hours tracking this one down.  This may be a FAQ, but
> I've been only skimming the Zope list over the last year and missed
> it.
>
> In my case, the specific fix required a change to the getRoles method
> of the authentication ZClass used with LoginManager.  My new code
> looks like this:
>
> 	result = []
> 	if self.role_list:
> 	    for r in self.role_list:
> 		result.append(r.role_name)
> 	    result.append('Authenticated')
> 	return result
>
> I added that penultimate line to get things working again, along with
> installing the TransactionAgents stuff.
>
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