[Zope] Determining Local Roles

[Dieter Maurer]

Eric Vautour writes:
 > I have a stumper here.  I am using the following code to determine the
 > permissions of users
 > 
 > from AccessControl import getSecurityManager
 > user = getSecurityManager().getUser()
 > if user.has_permission('Change DTML Documents', ob):
 > 
 > This piece of code appears to detect appropriate permissions if the user is
 > set up in an acl_users folder  however, this piece of code does not appear
 > to work at the "local role" level.  That is to say that if I give "Jo"
 > permissions to change the "index_html" document, the above code does not see
 > "Jo" as having permissions to do so.
I just checked this with my Zope 2.3 CVS.

It does take local roles into account.

Are you sure, your *ob* is what you expect it to be.
Someone else had accidentally rendered the object and passed
in the result (a string).


Dieter