The reason the files are owned by 506 is an artifact of the way the RPM was packaged. Either untar and install the source as a "normal" user or maybe contact the maintainer of the RPM and see if this installation behavior is intentional (I imagine it is).
-----Original Message----- From: Gregory Haley [mailto:ghaley@venaca.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:36 PM To: Stephen Nosal Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Who is uid 506?
Hi,
Take a look at your /etc/passwd file. You will notice that system user ids are 0 - ?, then there are other user id's, the first actual user is assigned uid of 500, for me, 500 is my own user account. If you add a user zope, you can assign it a uid by hand, or it will assign the next available uid in the list.
On some systems, though, zope will not run unless it has the owner and group set to nobody, which has a uid of 99 -- if your install assigned a uid of 506, it might be that this was assigned to someone who built the installation you have, but when you uncompressed it, etc, there are not enough users in your passwd file so that a user id (name) is actually assigned the UID of 506. I think it would be better to run a command such as:
$ chown -R nobody.nobody * in your /opt/zope/ directory. This will recurssively change all the subdirectories and files. On my localhost installation, I actually use nobody.wheel as the owner and group, since I am in the wheel group, i can edit the files, but only root can delete or screw with the directories.
In a terribly verbose way, don't create a zope user uid of 506, but change the owner/group to something that will be secure from crackers and other crooks.
HTH.
ciao! greg.
Stephen Nosal wrote:
Folks - I've installed Zope 2.2 (binary rpm) on my Linux
box (suse 6.4) and I notice that many files are owned by uid 506.
I don't have a uid 506 on my box. Should I create a zope
user with this id? Should I ignore it?
- Steve
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