Toby's point still applies. In order to run on a privileged port, zope must be started as root. I have another question for you, though. Are you sure you installed zope with the -u switch to tell it that you would be running it as a non-privileged user? Something like './install -u zope -g zopegroup' for the binary version? That could account for what you're seeing. Even so, it still must be started as root in order to use port 80. There's just no way around that.

-----Original Message----- From: notices name [mailto:notices@fiberfolk.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:43 AM To: tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com; notices@fiberfolk.com Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] unix security patch

I believe I want -u zope because I don't have Apache, zope is the web server. So zope has to serve on port 80. Thanks, Annie

--- Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> wrote:

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:43:42 -0800 (PST), notices name <notices@fiberfolk.com> wrote:

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and then I edited start to add -u zope

that means zope is going to *change* to the new user. It can only do that if started as root. This is a little more difficult to set up, but necessary if (and only if) you want zope to listen on a low numbered port (80, 21, etc)

An alternative is to change to that new user before starting zope. Then you dont need any -u switch, but you have to use a high numbered port (such as 8080)

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com

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