[Zope] LDAPUserSatellite - Misunderstood usage?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

> I took a look at the source and it seems straightforward enough.  When
> I did a little introspection, I found something that might be a
> problem.  I created an external method to report the type of the
> current user object (needed to be an external method for ``type``),
> and for both kinds of users, standard (i.e. admin in the default user
> folder), and authenticated out of LDAP, I got::
>
>    <extension class Acquisition.ImplicitAcquirerWrapper at 40796180>
>
> so it appears that the users aren't gaining roles because the
> ``allowed`` method of LDAPUser isn't getting called.
>
> Could this have something to do with it, or am I way off base?

Python scripts can use something similar to "type", it's called 
"same_type". Under almost all circumstances the user object you look at 
*will* be wrapped, so your output just confirms that. In your external 
method, you could do something like this:

from Acquisition import aq_base
from AccessControl.SecurityManagement import getSecurityManager

... and then look at the type of user...

user_type = type(getSecurityManager().getUser())

(untested and from memory)

jens