[Zope] - Zope Ports

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Dave Goodrich wrote:

> Now I'm confused, had to happen didn't it? 
> 
> 1)  Can't install Zope as root because my machine doesn't run as root.  Check.
> 2)  Install Zope as me and Zope runs now, can start and stop.  Check.
> 3)  Can't run Zope on port 80 unless I'm root.  No Check.
That's an easy one. To bind ports below 1024 (usually) one has to be root.

> Why is development on port 80 bad?  I've done it many times on a spare IP
> address with Webstar and QPQ and Webten.  When eveything works I move the site
> to an address with the proper domain.
> 
> Is this a Unix thing I should know about?  Do I need to create a user with
You can not just create a user with root access. 
There is one user root <-> uid==0. You could create more usernames for
root, but this is not a very good idea.

Andreas
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