[Zope] Setuid

[J Cameron Cooper]

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>Blank to all I have installed zope-2.6.0_1 on freebsd 4,7 stable but I have of the problems to make to start it. 
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> If launch zope from root with 
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> su-2.05b# ./start
>  I receive this error SystemExit: A user was not specified to setuid to; fix this to start as root (see doc/SETUID.txt)
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> I have tried also always launch it with l option - u from root 
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> su-2.05b# ./start -u slupz
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> SystemExit: /usr/local/www/Zope/var is not owned by root, fix this to start as root (see doc/SETUID.txt)
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> Someone puo gives to me one aid hand? Thanks to all. 
>Excused for my English. 
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To run Zope on port 80 on various UNIX-types, it needs to start as root 
and drop to a normal user. That user is defined in the -u parameter, 
which you are doing. There are also other things you need to do:

make your var directory owned by root and set the "sticky bit"

All this is explained in docs/SETUID.txt

You could also let it run on an unpriveledged port (like 8080) and start 
it as a normal user.

          --jcc