[Zope] product installation voodoo

[Bill Anderson]

michael angelo ruberto wrote:
> > can somebody tell me what the
> > permissions for products should look like?

To which Kevin actually wrote: 
> I'm not sure that it really matters as long as your webserver process can
> read the files.
> 
> Kevin

To which Michael responded:
> i've had situations where trying to import a .zexp does not work until the
> file's permissions are set to nobody:nobody ?

Of course. This was because your zope, running as nobody.nody, could not
read the .zexp file, as read was apparently not enabled for everybody.
Chowning it to nobody.nobody allowed the zope process to read it.