[Zope] Authenticated user in Session onAdd methods?

Julian Melville jmelville@selectaustralasia.com.au
Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:36:16 +1000


Julian Melville writes:
 > If the object which is calling the SecurityGetUser().getUserName() is
 > accessible anonymously (i.e. user doesn't have to be authenticated to
view)
 > then Zope always appears to return 'Anonymous User' even if the user has
 > logged in.
 >

Dieter writes:
> This should no longer be the case with modern Zope versions
> (above 2.5, at least).
>
>   In fact, it was never the case with access to anything protected
>   by a permission, even a permission granted to "Anonymous".

Hmmm. Today I can't replicate this at all, yet I have  a bunch of Python
code from last week which I wrote to work around the problem... weird!

Anyway, thanks Dieter.

Julian.