[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.5 Edition)/Appendix B: API Reference

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      The arguments may be provided as keyword arguments. Some of
      these arguments may be omitted, however, the policy may
      reject access in some cases when arguments are omitted.  It
      is best to provide all the values possible.

        % Anonymous User - Dec. 17, 2002 6:42 am:
         In writing a custom User Folder what should one do?
         Inherit from UserFolder and override the validate method or 
         use SecurityManager.validate()?

        % Anonymous User - Dec. 17, 2002 10:08 am:
         You typically don't want to override validate unless you need to do something very special.