Re: [Mailmanager-users] Permissions - gone!

[Kevin C. <ke...@lo...>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 01:04:20PM +0000, Philip Kilner wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Have recently logged onto a recently installed MailManager instance
> (which I'm still learning to fly!), and found myself locked out. I was
> logging on to check a problem report from a user, who reported that he
> had first seen an HTTP pop-up authentication dialogue rather than the
> page he was expecting, and then had been locked out himself.
> 
> I've had to set wide-open permissions on the security tab of the ZMI in
> the MM folder for all MM roles such that I can get back in again, and am
> about to do a clean install in a clean Zope instance such that I can
> "crib" the proper settings.
> 
> I have two questions: -
> 
> 1) Has anyone else ever seen such behaviour? Is there anything I should
> watch for which may be linked to the problem?
> 
> (The only event on the server this seems to bear any relation to is the
> installation of the MailDropHost Zope product, but I'm not using this in
>  MM)
> 
> 2) I see all MailManager-related permissions set to manager in the Zope
> root, and the MailManager folder itself, containing the MM-specific
> roles. Is there anything else to watch out for or check?
> 
> TIA

Philip,

The problem is likely due to some part of the same domain requiring HTTP
authentication. In 2.1 MailManager uses a cookie based authentication system.
Unfortunately at present this causes problems if standard HTTP authentication
is supplied. In this case, the end user will need to restart their browser.
There may be a way to fix this, but the changes in 2.1 were necessary to fix
a number of other issues.

Regards,
Kevin

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