[Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/branches/Zope-2.8/doc/ Playing with branches some more

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Mon May 10 15:46:29 EDT 2004


Log message for revision 24357:
Playing with branches some more



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Deleted: Zope/branches/Zope-2.8/doc/SECURITY.txt
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--- Zope/branches/Zope-2.8/doc/SECURITY.txt	2004-05-10 19:43:08 UTC (rev 24356)
+++ Zope/branches/Zope-2.8/doc/SECURITY.txt	2004-05-10 19:46:28 UTC (rev 24357)
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-Setting the initial user name and password
-
-  Because Zope is managed through the web, user names and passwords must be
-  used to assure that only authorized people can make changes to a Zope
-  installation.
-
-  Some user name and password is needed to "bootstrap" the creation of
-  normal managers of your Zope site.  This is accomplished through the
-  use of the file 'inituser'.  The first time Zope starts, it will detect
-  that no users have been defined in the root user folder.  It will search
-  for the 'inituser' file and, if it exists, will add the user defined
-  in the file to the root user folder.
-
-  Normally, 'inituser' is created by the Zope install scripts.  Either
-  the installer prompts for the password or a randomly generated
-  password is created and displayed at the end of the build script.
-
-  You can use the 'zpasswd.py' script to create 'inituser' yourself.
-  Execute 'zpasswd.py' like this::
-
-    python zpasswd.py inituser
-
-  The script will prompt you for the name, password, and allowed
-  domains.  The default is to encode the password with SHA, so please
-  remember this password as there is no way to recover it (although
-  'zpasswd.py' lets you reset it.)
-
-  In some situations you may need to bypass normal security controls
-  because you have lost your password or because the security settings
-  have been mixed up.  Zope provides a facility called an "emergency
-  user" so that you can reset passwords and correct security
-  settings.
-
-  The emergency user password must be defined outside the application
-  user interface.  It is defined in the 'access' file located
-  in the Zope directory.  It should be readable only by the user
-  as which your web server runs.
-
-  To create the emergency user, use 'zpasswd.py' to create the
-  'access' file like this::
-
-    python zpasswd.py access
-
-  In order to provide a somewhat higher level of security, various
-  encoding schemes are supported which provide access to either SHA-1
-  encryption or the standard UNIX crypt facility if it has been compiled
-  into Python.  Unless you have some special requirements (see below), 
-  you should use the SHA-1 facility, which is the default.
-
-Format of 'inituser' and 'access'
-
-  A password file should consist of a single line of the form:
-
-    name:password
-
-  Note that you may also add an optional third component to the line
-  in the access file to restrict access by domain.
-  For example, the line:
-
-    mario:nintendoRules:*.mydomain.com
- 
-  in your 'access' file will only allow permit emergency user access
-  from *.mydomain.com machines. Attempts to access the system from
-  other domains will fail, even if the correct emergency user name
-  and password are used.
-
-  Please note that if you use the ZServer monitor capability, you will
-  need to run with a clear text password.
-
-Setting permissions on the var directory.
-
-  You need to set permissions on the Zope var directory.
-  Zope needs to read and write data from its var directory. Before
-  running Zope you should ensure that you give adequate permissions
-  to the Zope var directory for the userid Zope will run under.
-
-  Depending on how you choose to run Zope you will need to give
-  different permissions to the var directory.  If you use Zope with an
-  existing web server, it will probably run Zope as 'nobody'. In this
-  case 'nobody' needs read and write permissions to the var directory.
-
-  If you change the way you run Zope you may need to modify the permissions
-  of the var directory and the files in it to allow Zope to read and write
-  under its changed userid.
-

Modified: Zope/branches/Zope-2.8/doc/ZEO/trace.txt
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--- Zope/branches/Zope-2.8/doc/ZEO/trace.txt	2004-05-10 19:43:08 UTC (rev 24356)
+++ Zope/branches/Zope-2.8/doc/ZEO/trace.txt	2004-05-10 19:46:28 UTC (rev 24357)
@@ -124,3 +124,5 @@
 
 The simul.py tool shows the number of cache flips in the FLIPS column.
 If you see more than one flip per hour the cache may be too small.
+
+blah blah




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