AccessControl 3.0.7

Security framework for Zope2.

Overview

AccessControl provides a general security framework for use in Zope2.

Changelog

3.0.7 (2013-05-14)

• Remove long-deprecated ‘Shared’ roles support (pre-dates Zope, never used by Zope itself)

• Prevent infinite loop when looking up local roles in an acquisition chain with cycles.

3.0.6 (2012-10-31)

• LP #1071067: Use a stronger random number generator and a constant time comparison function.

3.0.5 (2012-10-21)

• LP #966101: Recognize special zope2.Private permission in ZCML role directive.

3.0.4 (2012-09-09)

• LP #1047318: Tighten import restrictions for restricted code.

3.0.3 (2012-08-23)

• Fix a bug in ZopeSecurityPolicy.py. Global variable rolesForPermissionOn could be overridden if __role__ had custom rolesForPermissionOn.

3.0.2 (2012-06-22)

• Add Anonymous as a default role for Public permission.

3.0.1 (2012-05-24)

• Fix tests under Python 2.6.

3.0 (2012-05-12)

• Added decorators for public, private and protected security declarations.

• Update tests to take advantage of automatic test suite discovery.

2.13.7 (2011-12-12)

• Exclude compiled .so and .dll files from source distributions.

2.13.6 (2011-12-12)

• Added manifest.in to ensure the inclusion of the include directory into the release.

2.13.5 (2011-12-12)

• Apply changes made available in Products.Zope_Hotfix_20111024 and make them more robust.

2.13.4 (2011-01-11)

• Return the created user in _doAddUser.

• Added IUser interface.

• LP #659968: Added support for level argument to the __import__ function as introduced in Python 2.5. Currently only level=-1 is supported.

2.13.3 (2010-08-28)

• Added a role subdirective for the permission ZCML directive. If any roles are specified, they will override the default set of default roles (Manager).

2.13.2 (2010-07-16)

• Added override_existing_protection parameter to the protectName helper.

2.13.1 (2010-06-19)

• Restore security declarations for deprecated sets module.

2.13.0 (2010-06-19)

• Released as separate package.