Re: Plain-text passwords in your ZODB

Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On 12/16/2010 02:58 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:39:40PM +0100, Andreas Jung wrote:
>> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>> So, did you know that by default Zope stores a copy of every user's
>>> username and password in your ZODB, in plain text, on every login that
>>> uses forms and sessions (rather than HTTP basic auth)?
>>
>> By "Zope" you mean Zope 3, ZTK, Bluebream ...?
> 
> All of the above.  More specifically, zope.pluggableauth (and, I assume,
> zope.app.authentication before that).
> 
> I haven't looked at Zope 2, sorry.

I would venture to say that almost nobody in the Z2 world uses
zope.pluggableauth:  they use Products.PluggableAuthService or another
Z2-specific solution.

The SessionAuth plugin for PAS does put the credentials in the session,
IIRC.


Tres.
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