[Zope] request.set('AUTHENTICATED_USER',...

[Stefan H. Holek]

AUTHENTICATED_USER has been deprecated aeons ago and should have 
vanished from the REQUEST by means of bit rot alone ;-). You have to 
ask the security manager for the current user:

	from AccessControl import getSecurityManager
	getSecurityManager().getUser()

This is allowed in Python Scripts, AFAIK.

Stefan


On Jan 13, 2006, at 20:22, Brian Brinegar wrote:

> We are running Zope 2.6.x and I noticed yesterday that I could do the
> following:
>
>   acl_users = container.acl_users
>   user = acl_users.getUser('test_user')
>   request.set('AUTHENTICATED_USER',user)
>   print request.AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()
>
> This isn't a huge deal since it doesn't seem to change the permissions
> available to the user. But many of our scripts rely on
> AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName() to return the actual logged in user. 
> Is
> this addressed in later versions of Zope? Is there a better way to get
> the current user's user name?

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