[Zope] installation security best practice question

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 14 Mar 2006, at 14:09, Luca Olivetti wrote:

> En/na Jens Vagelpohl ha escrit:
>
>> The best way to install and run Zope is to have a dedicated user  
>> account and install and run it as that user. Most everything else  
>> will lead to problems and frustration.
>
> Only because the zope-2.8.6 tarball has wrong permissions. It  
> worked before, it will work once you fix the permission on the  
> installed zope.

The advice has nothing to do with Zope 2.8.6 or any other tarball.  
Trying to be overly clever and not using a dedicated account for both  
installation and running your Zope doesn't add much security, it only  
adds complication. Unless you install software that lets users write  
to the file system through the web people cannot get to the filesystem.

jens