[Zope] new 2.7 redhat rpm and external method permissions

Ed Colmar ed at greengraphics.net
Tue Sep 21 17:00:07 EDT 2004


Thanks for the reply!

effective-user is already set to zope, I restarted just to make sure.

No change.

In the docs it mentions that this only has an effect when started as user
root.  Is there a way to tell which user it is starting as in /etc/rc.d/ ?

-ed



On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Kalyan Jammigumpula wrote:

> Look for zope.conf in $INSTACE_HOME/etc. You should see something like
> effective-user. Set that and that should be all.
> -k
> Ed Colmar wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I recently installed a new zope 2.7 rpm on redhat.  Everything went smooth
> > and zope is running great.
> >
> > I have some external methods that do various tasks throughout the
> > filesystem.  In this case, the files are in a particular mysql directory.
> >
> > I have created a group for zope and mysql called "www" and changed
> > ownership of this directory to that group.
> >
> > I can read and write to this directory as the zope user.
> >
> > My external methods fail with invalid permissions.
> >
> > I have verified that the setuid is zope, but I am not positive that zope
> > is actually running under the zope user.
> >
> > How can I set/verify that this is the case?
> >
> > On all of my previous zope installs, I would log in as zope, and do
> > ./start  it appears that this convention has changed.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > -ed
> >
> >
> >
>

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