[Zope] Newbie - installing DirectoryStorage.

[Toby Dickenson]

On Thursday 03 April 2003 1:58 pm, FNk wrote:

> I'm having problems installing DirectoryStorage 

> The installation seems to be going well (e.g. everything get installed
> without error), but when a start Zope, I can't manage to logon.
> I run zope with the -u switch. Apparently, "the best workaround is to drop
> root privileges sooner, before starting Zope".
> Can somebody tell me what this means exactly ? 

Dont start zope as root. Change to a different uid before running the start 
script. see doc/SETUID.txt

> My second question is: Is there a way of installing Zope without having to
> use the -u switch ?

su zopeuser /path/to/zope/start

I understand that this restriction in DirectoryStorage will go away in Zope 
2.7, but it is good practice to avoid starting Zope as root in any case.

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Toby Dickenson
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