[Zope] Who is uid 506?

[Chris McDonough]

The reason the files are owned by 506 is an artifact of the way the RPM
was packaged.  Either untar and install the source as a "normal" user or
maybe contact the maintainer of the RPM and see if this installation
behavior is intentional (I imagine it is).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Haley [mailto:ghaley@venaca.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:36 PM
> To: Stephen Nosal
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Who is uid 506?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Take a look at your /etc/passwd file.  You will notice that 
> system user
> ids are 0 - ?, then there are other user id's, the first 
> actual user is
> assigned uid of 500, for me, 500 is my own user account.  If you add a
> user zope, you can assign it a uid by hand, or it will assign the next
> available uid in the list.
> 
> On some systems, though, zope will not run unless it has the owner and
> group set to nobody, which has a uid of 99 -- if your install 
> assigned a
> uid of 506, it might be that this was assigned to someone who 
> built the
> installation you have, but when you uncompressed it, etc, 
> there are not
> enough users in your passwd file so that a user id (name) is actually
> assigned the UID of 506.  I think it would be better to run a command
> such as:
> 
> $ chown -R nobody.nobody * in your /opt/zope/ directory.  This will
> recurssively change all the subdirectories and files.  On my localhost
> installation, I actually use nobody.wheel as the owner and 
> group, since
> I am in the wheel group, i can edit the files, but only root 
> can delete
> or screw with the directories.
> 
> In a terribly verbose way, don't create a zope user uid of 506, but
> change the owner/group to something that will be secure from crackers
> and other crooks.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> ciao!
> greg.
> 
> 
> Stephen Nosal wrote:
> > 
> > Folks - I've installed Zope 2.2 (binary rpm) on my Linux 
> box (suse 6.4) and I notice that many files are owned by uid 506.
> > 
> > I don't have a uid 506 on my box. Should I create a zope 
> user with this id? Should I ignore it?
> > 
> > - Steve
> > 
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