[Zope] Problems starting ZEO with zeoctl

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben" <shadroth at gmail.com>
To: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Problems starting ZEO with zeoctl


> On 9/2/06, Jonathan <dev101 at magma.ca> wrote:
>
>> The zeo.conf that I am running (Zope 2.9.2) has the 'user' entry 
>> commented
>> out:
>
> [...]
>
>> I don't usually run zeoctl manually (my CentOS 4.3 system starts it at 
>> boot
>> time), but when I do I am running as 'root' and it works fine.
>
> What is the security risk with doing this?
>

If you're running behind a firewall you could set your firewall so that port 
8100 is blocked from outside access (ie. only your zeo client and zeo 
server, running behind the firewall, can communicate on port 8100 - or 
whatever port you have zeo configured to use)