[Zope] Zope and permissions in Linux

[Ron Bickers]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
> Michael Long
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 11:43 PM

> You do not want to start zope as root. The zope process has the same
> permissions as the user that starts the process.

Actually, you *must* start Zope as root if you want to listen on a
privileged port.  When you start as root, Zope will setuid to the user you
specify with the -u option to z2.py, so it will serve requests under that
non-privileged user.

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Ron Bickers
Logic Etc, Inc.