[Zope] Zope and Linux/Unix permissions

[Chris McDonough]

I *think* Brian Lloyd checked in a change to the startup machinery so that
it now sets gid correctly during startup.  If this isn't in recent
releases, it will definitely be in the next.

On 24 Apr 2000 kent@tiamat.goathill.org wrote:

> On 20 Apr 2000 05:00:01 -0500, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> >Hi Oscar,
> 
> [...]
> 
> >You are probably starting zope as root also. So zope considers to
> >change euid to nobody in this case. 
> >Eventually the directory in question is not xr- in the case.
> 
> (associated)
> 
> Last time I checked, ZServer didn't handle group permissions
> correctly with setuid(), at least on Solaris. If files are restricted
> to owner and group, you have to setuid to owner or change file
> ownership.
> 
> 
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