[Zope] zope for webhosting

[darcy w. christ]

i'm trying to convince my webhosting service that zope is a good thing.
The guy there has some concern.  Could anyone help me to convince him,
or are his concerns valid?  Is anyone using zope in this kind of
multiuser environment?

> The main issue is security -- we have to be able to run each user-supplied
> program with the UID of the user who owns it.  If all user-supplied
> applications run with the same UID (the UID of a server, or of some
> pseudo-user), that would be a problem which would most probably prevent us
> from being able to implement this safely in a multi-user environment.  We
> run all CGIs with user UIDs, but zope's architecture may circumvent that,
> even when run as a CGI, judging from what I've read so far.
>
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~/darcy w. christ
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