[Zope] Zope and Linux/Unix permissions

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Oscar,

Oscar Picasso wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have installed Zope 2.1.6 in Red Hat Linux 6.2 box. I followed the How-To
> installing and Upgrading Zope 2.x. No problems expect when I try to run a
> method of a Python Class that is used as Z base class.
> 
> My method works fine with the python interpreter. However when I tried
> it within Zope i get
> 
> Error Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied
> 
> I have been trying many things to solve this problem (changing
> permissions of the directory i want to accesss to, of the module,
> ...). What is the right thing to do? It has surely more
> to do with the Unix permissions but i don't know to solve this problem.
> 
> Here is what i have done.
> 
> #### My base class:
> #### in /usr/local/zope/lib/python/Products/BaseStore/BaseStore.py
> #### -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root         1273 Apr 14 15:37 BaseStore.py
> 
You are probably starting zope as root also. So zope considers to
change euid to nobody in this case. 
Eventually the directory in question is not xr- in the case.

HTH
Tino Wildenhain