[Zope] root privileges required

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, May 26, 2004, Rodrigo Dias Arruda Senra wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:51:02 +0300
>Vangelis Mihalopoulos <mihalop at VTrip.NET> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I am looking for a way to start Zope (2.7.2) with root privileges 
>> *without* droping them later. I tried to set:
>>   effective-user root
>
> Hi,
> wouldn't be more wise just setuid (chmdo -s) some external method['s],
> doing inside it[them] you root 'necessities' ;o)?

Other alternatives might be using ``sudo'' from the external method or
perhaps XMLRPC calls to a server running as root.

Bill
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