[Zope] How do I force authentication?

[Jérôme Loisel]

Hello!

I am building a few Zope websites. These sites live as subfolders of my root 
zope install, in which I place common code. Those websites will be 
administered by non-technical people, so one of my main coding efforts is 
building alternate, easy-to-use admin screens.

I have one snag now. I want a login page which has Zope authenticate 
visitors. I don't want to take them to the real admin screens, I just want to 
have Zope authenticate them. I initially did this by writing a simple DTML 
method, login.html, which is not viewable by anyone with a role other than 
anonymous. That worked fine for a while.

That approach fails, however, when the user if defined in an acl_users folder 
which is lower in the object hierarchy than the login.html method. And that 
is the case for all my sub-site admins.

I have gone around this so far by copying login.html to all subsites... But I 
am sure there is a better solution. Can anyone point me in the right 
direction? Thanks for listening.

Cheers,

Jérôme Loisel


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Jérôme Loisel
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