AccessControl 4.0

Security framework for Zope.

AccessControl

AccessControl provides a general security framework for use in Zope.

Changelog

For changes before version 3.0, see HISTORY.rst.

4.0 (2019-05-08)

Changes since 3.0.12:

• Add support for Python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8.

• Restore simple access to bytes methods in Python 3 (#83)

• Clarify deprecation warnings for several BBB shims. (#32)

• Add a test to prove that a user folder flag cannot be acquired elsewhere. (#7)

• Tighten basic auth string handling in BasicUserFolder.identify (#56)

• Prevent the Zope 4 ZMI from showing an add dialog for the user folder. (#82)

• Fix order of roles returned by AccessControl.rolemanager.RoleManager.userdefined_roles.

• Add configuration for zodbupdate.

• Add TaintedBytes besides TaintedString in AccessControl.tainted. (#57)

• Security fix: In str.format, check the security for attributes that are accessed. (Ported from 2.13).

• Port override_container context manager here from 2.13.

• Add AppVeyor configuration to automate building Windows eggs.

• Fix for compilers that only support C89 syntax (e.g. on Windows).

• Sanitize and test RoleManager role handling.

• Depend on RestrictedPython >= 4.0.

• #16: Fixed permission handling by avoiding column and row numbers as identifiers for permissions and roles.

• Extract .AuthEncoding to its own package for reuse.

• Declare missing dependency on BTrees.

• Drop Record dependency, which now does its own security declaration.

• Remove leftovers from history support dropped in Zope.

• Remove duplicate guard against * imports. (#60)

3.0.12 (2015-12-21)

• Avoid acquiring access from module wrapped by SecurityInfo._ModuleSecurityInfo. See: https://github.com/zopefoundation/AccessControl/issues/12

3.0.11 (2014-11-02)

• Harden test fix for machines that do not define localhost.

3.0.10 (2014-11-02)

• Test fix for machines that do not define localhost.

3.0.9 (2014-08-08)

• GitHub #6: Do not pass SecurityInfo instance itself to declarePublic/declarePrivate when using the public/private decorator. This fixes Conflicting security declarations warnings on Zope startup.

• LP #1248529: Leave existing security manager in place inside RoleManager.manage_getUserRolesAndPermissions.

3.0.8 (2013-07-16)

• LP #1169923: ensure initialization of shared ImplPython state (used by ImplC) when using the “C” security policy. Thanks to Arnaud Fontaine for the patch.

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.