[Zope] Suggestions for improving http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/zopeinstall/ZOPE-INSTALL-HOWTO

[Reinoud van Leeuwen]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:15:40PM +0100, Frank Tegtmeyer wrote:
> Douglas Carnall <dougie@carnall.org> writes:
> 
> > All this futzing with security is important because we're going to start
> > Zope as the root user. When Zope is started as root, it executes programs
> > kept in the Zope directory as the root user before it switches user context
> > to the nobody user.
> 
> Is there _any_ need to have Zope started as root? 
> I never did this and hadn't problems with this approach yet. Even the
> Zope tree is only readable for Zope on my systems (after one initial
> start to get the pyc-files).
> 
Yes, to bind it to port 80

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