[Zope] Password Overlap

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:34:45 +0100


Dan Shafer writes:
 > ... password only authentication ...
 > The problem is, since I'm not even asking people for a user name here, 
 > only a password, and since the site is protected from access via the 
 > acl folder, his clients can't get past the password screen because the 
 > acl logic presents a challenge for a user name and password which, of 
 > course, these folks don't have.
You may check, whether Zope (and browsers) accepts an empty username.

With HTTP basic authentication, you will have the browser
login dialog (with its two entries).
You are more flexible with cookie based authentication.


Dieter