Thanks Ron, Michael, I'm getting a better understanding of it. It was confusing why the main directories are owned by root and not by zope. But I suppose the idea is exactly to avoid the zope user to mess with the installation, with the logical exception of var. Also confusing was that I could not su to zope (to create a directory in var/gadfly), but that's also sorted out. Regards, Fernando
Are there security issues that mandate that zope should be listening on a privileged port?
No. Many people run Zope behind another Web server that listens on port 80, in which case there's no need to run Zope on a privileged port. But if you wanted ZServer to serve by itself on port 80, you'd have to run it as root. _______________________
Ron Bickers Logic Etc, Inc.
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