[Zope] Change current user

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:42:48 +0200 (CEST)


Juan Garcia Garcia writes:
 >   i'm developing a site where there are about nine kind of users. When
 > an user enter to the site, he is an Anonymous User, but i have a button
 > that its purpose is to change of current user to another that exists in
 > an acl_users folder. The user must enter the name and password of the 
 > user he wants to login as.
You cannot easily use Basic Authentication for this.
You need Cookie based Authentication. There are lots of User Folders
that support Cookie based authentication. As an alternative,
you can use Shane's CookieCrumbler.

When you use Cookie based authentication, you simply somehow
define the form variables you find in the login form
and submit to the corresponding action.


Dieter