[Zope] LocatFS Security

J. Cameron Cooper jccooper@rice.edu
Wed, 01 Aug 2001 12:28:10 -0500


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>Who does LocalFS access the actual directorys on the file system as?  Whoever
>zope is runnin as? So if it's root it has root access?
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Last I checked it was the Zope user or whatever username (with password) 
you gave it. (Or is that only for Windows networking stuff?)

Btw, I *highly* suggest nobody even think of running Zope as root. In 
fact I think that if it is run as 'root', it'll knock itself back to 
'nobody'.

        --jcc
    (terribly insecure)