[Zope3-Users] PAU and Session Credentials

[Florian Lindner]

Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2006 16:02 schrieb Stephan Richter:
> On Sunday 20 November 2005 16:57, Florian Lindner wrote:
> > TraversalError: (Principal(u'pre1'), 'getLogin')
> >
> > The error log information of the user:
> >
> > User:  unauthenticated, pre1, CS.User,

The log entry came from the RootErrorReportingUtility.

> Ah, there is your problem. IPrincipal does not promise to implement
> "getLogin". In fact, the login name is commonly well-protected for security
> reasons.

I assume that self.request.principal.id comes to be the same like a call to 
getLogin. Since I don't even use getLogin.

What would be your way to work around that?

>
> > pre is the prefix of my principal folder (BTW: what is the sense of this
> > prefix), 1 is the object id of my test principal, CS.User the role of the
> > principal.
>
> Because if you have several different principal folders they might
> duplicate principal names (local ids). The prefix helps to distinguish
> between the various principal folders.

Ok, I see.

Thanks,

Florian