[Zope] root privileges required

[Vangelis Mihalopoulos]

Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra wrote:

> Hi,
> wouldn't be more wise just setuid (chmdo -s) some external method['s],
> doing inside it[them] you root 'necessities' ;o)?
>  
>

thanks for your answer Rod,

nice thinking, but i am not sure it would work... external methods are 
called in the same thread serving the request... so, how would a suid 
affect anything? It could only be useful if i "executed" suid python 
scripts from an external method, and thus creating a new process... i 
have to test it to be sure.