[Zope] Re: nonroot user running zope on 80

[Calvin Hendryx-Parker]

John Hunter wrote:
> On a linux box, what is the right way to allow a non-privileged user
> (eg "zope") to run a zope server on port 80.  I can run on 8080 just
> fine, but don't have access to the lower numbered ports.
> 
> Interestingly, when I try 'bin/runzope' as root (port 80 or 8080), I
> get a segmentation fault, even though I can run on 80 as user zope.
> 
> [root at crcdocs bin]# ./runzope
> ------
> 2004-09-21T16:29:36 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Tue Sep 21 16:29:36 2004
>         Hostname: localhost.localdomain
>         Port: 8080
> ------
> 2004-09-21T16:29:36 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Tue Sep 21 16:29:36 2004
>         Hostname: crcdocs.bsd.uchicago.edu
>         Port: 8021
> Segmentation fault
> [root at crcdocs bin]#

You have to start the parent process as root since it is below 1024, but 
in the zope.conf you can set the effective-user to someone else so its 
children will then run as the non-privileged user.  Not optimal, but works.

Calvin

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