[Zope] still bad perception of Zope about security

Reinoud van Leeuwen reinoud@xs4all.nl
Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:15:54 +0200 (CEST)


>> 
>> So I think something has to be done to restore Zope confidence around
>> ISPs, but unfortunately I don't know what.
>> 
> 
> This might not be relevant to your ISP's setup, but
> since Zope normally shouldn't access anything
> outside its $HOME, shouldn't it be fairly 
> straightforward to set up  the ZServer to use a 
> restricted environment (rexec)? Alternatively one
> could do a chroot() before starting the server. Have
> anybody hacked the ZServer to run restricted?

I run Zope on a FreeBSD box in a jail (that is a chrooted environment that 
acts like a standalone Unix box). It is fairly simple to setup (just follow 
the examples in 'man jail'). No changes were needed in any Zope code.

Reinoud