On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:15:40PM +0100, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote:
Douglas Carnall <dougie@carnall.org> writes:
All this futzing with security is important because we're going to start Zope as the root user. When Zope is started as root, it executes programs kept in the Zope directory as the root user before it switches user context to the nobody user.
Is there _any_ need to have Zope started as root? I never did this and hadn't problems with this approach yet. Even the Zope tree is only readable for Zope on my systems (after one initial start to get the pyc-files).
Yes, to bind it to port 80 -- __________________________________________________ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen reinoud.v@n.leeuwen.net http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __________________________________________________