[Zope] what user and group to use for zope install

Evan Simpson evan@tokenexchange.com
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:11:57 -0500


I don't know about "should", so I can only tell you what I do.

My Zope installation lives in '/home/Zope', which belongs to my normal login
account 'evan' but group 'nobody' (and I have 'nobody' as a secondary group
for 'evan').  Zope is started by the root, so it automatically runs as
'nobody'.

I considered making a 'zope' user, but this way I can pop over to the Zope
directory to add a Product, edit an Extension, or whatever without changing
users.

Of course, I'm the only administrator on this machine, so YMMV.

----- Original Message -----
From: Geoff Nordli <geoff@gnaa.net>
> Should I create a user, and group for zope install?
>
> Where should I put the installation? "/usr/local/zope"
>
> Should the user/group own Zope's entire directory
> structure.