[Zope] Zope and permissions in Linux

[Michael Long]

Are there security issues that mandate that zope should be listening on
a privileged port?

On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 00:05, Ron Bickers wrote:
> > -----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.
> 
> _______________________
> 
> Ron Bickers
> Logic Etc, Inc.
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