[Zope3-Users] How do I automatically login a user

[kevin gill]

Please check in the code to the sandbox and I will have a look at it. The
coding looks straight-forward, but choosing how to work it into the
existing  components.

I will look at the code and come back with questions.

Thanks

Kevin

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> On Apr 1, 2008, at 12:33 PM, kevin gill wrote:
>> During my registration process I want to automatically login the
>> user (in
>> Zope3).
>>
>> I can see how to programatically logout a user using
>> ILogout().logout(request), but I don't see an equivalent for logging
>> in.
>>
>> I intend to use session cookies for tracking users.
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> The most straightforward way is to interact with the session-
> credentials extractor directly to get it to save credentials for you.
> Unfortunately, the session-credentials extractor doesn't provide an
> API to do this.  This would be a worthy addition.  We have an internal
> session-credential extractor that does this.  I don't have time to
> work this into the version in zope.app.authentication, but if someone
> wants to work on this, I'd be happy to check my code into the sandbox
> for someone to work from.  Note that it also stores sha-encoded
> credentials. The current credentials extractor stores plain-text
> passwords in the session data which is extremely lame.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Jim Fulton
> Zope Corporation
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