Hello hi I have a little problem with aquisition and security. We have a project using multiple CPS instances (for those that don't know CPS, it's a CMF based groupware/CMS) running in the same Zope instance, and being siblings of each others [1]. One of these instances is the main entry point for the portal (I'll all it the 'portal'), the others are acting as workspaces for dedicated communities (I'll call them CPMs).
Each CPS instance has its own UserFolder. All users exists in the portal's UserFolder, but only exists in some CPMs UserFolders. Now the problem is that, due to acquisition, a member existing in the Portal but not in a given CPM can gain access to this CPM by faking the url - ie: going to mydomain.tld/portal/cpm instead of mydomain.tld/cpm. So we have a potential (err...) security hole here, that I would like to address ASAP. We've been thinking of using apache's rewrite rules, but since the customer will have the possibilitie to create new CPMs at will, this won't do. Idem for using subdomains, or anything implying the modification of apache conf. So we must fix the problem inside Zope itself. I searched the doc, this list's archive and the source code, and it seems that possible solutions involve playing with __bobo_traverse__ or __before_publishing_traverse__, but my (very naive) try didn't make it, so I'd really enjoy any hint and/or pointers about howtos, do's and don't, or any other resource concerning these hooks. Another thing I've been thinking of, reading BasicUserFolder's source, would be to subclass it and redefine the _isTop() method so users wouldn't been looked up for in a UserFolder placed in the context by acquisition, but I don't know enough about the whole mechanism to be sure it would'nt have unwanted side-effects and drawbacks. It's also very possible that I missed another simpler and better solution, so here again, any hint, pointer etc is *very* welcome. TIA [1] don't tell me, I know this is far from the best possible architecture, but that's the only one that we could think of that would let us meet the deadline. CPS Workspaces did not offer enough functionalities to be used for CPMs, and we need a tight integration between the Portal and CPMs. -- Bruno Desthuilliers Développeur [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )