Re: Pier user in context - smallwiki

29 Apr 2006

Hi Hans,

...
  hope you have has a nice trip to Toronto :-) 
yep, Canada is great! The Pier & Magritte presentation was a success.

...
  One Question: in the PRContext>>user, there will
be set property  
 user to nil if this property does not exist. Could that be  
 dangorous ? Should there be set some default user with smallest  
 rights ? (And should this user come from PRKernel as the smallest  
 user in current kernel or come from PRUser class as the smallest  
 thinkable user ?) 
Yeah, this is not a nice design. Similar as the 'admin' user and  
'admin' role, there should be an 'anonymous' user and an
'anonymous'  
role. There are several checks for nil now, what makes it quite ugly  
in the oo-world, however I don't think this imposes any security  
risk ;-)

I will have a look at this as soon as possible.

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch