AUTHENTICATED_USER is not reliable! [Was: [Zope] become user (su inside Zope) - pretend to be another user]

Andy McKay andy at clearwind.ca
Fri Oct 24 16:34:21 EDT 2003


Stefan H. Holek wrote:
> Why is everybody so obsessed with AUTHENTICATED_USER? This variable is 
> not suitable for anything deserving the name "security". It is NOT SAFE 
> to assume that it will contain anything useful.

Good job core products like RAM Cache Manager use AUTHENTICATED_USER by 
default then ;)
--
   Andy McKay
   ClearWind Consulting
   http://www.clearwind.ca




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