[Zope] Problems starting ZEO with zeoctl

[Jonathan]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben" <shadroth at gmail.com>
To: "Jonathan" <dev101 at magma.ca>
Cc: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Problems starting ZEO with zeoctl


> On 9/3/06, Jonathan <dev101 at magma.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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)
>
> I was planning on doing this anyway, but I was thinking more about how
> the ZEO server process might be able to run amok if it was run as
> root, but if it was run as a regular user then it would be more
> limited in what it could do.

I have never heard of a case where a rogue zeo server process ran 'amok' 
;-)



> I'm not sure how likely this is, I just want to know what risks I am
> accepting by having the convenience of running the ZEO server as a
> daemon.
>
> Thank you for your help with troubleshooting these problems, it is
> much appreciated.

Your welcome.


Jonathan