[Zope] External method UID

Jerome Alet alet@librelogiciel.com
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:23:59 +0200


On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 05:05:48PM +0300, Ruslan Spivak wrote:
> Hello zope users,
> 
> 
> Zope2.5.0 under RH7.2 executes External Method with UID=99(nobody on
> my machine). How can I tell zope to execute it with UID=0

Zope executes external methods as the user Zope itself is run as, which 
should NEVER be root !

what you want to do is a major security problem which  is waiting to occur.

find a better way

hth

Jerome Alet