[Zope] Starting Zope

[Nitesh Dhanjani]

chown the var directory to the zope user. This is what I do with my setup.



On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Cary O'Brien wrote:

> > Costagliola Giovanni wrote:
> > > 
> > > Il gio, 27 lug 2000, Oleg Broytmann ha scritto:
> > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Costagliola Giovanni wrote:
> > > > >     How can I to start Zope whit a different user than root and cath the
> > > > > default HTTP port?
> > > >
> > > >    Use different way - start Zope as root, catch port 80 and drop uid.
> > > >
> > > > >     I receive an error becouse root hasn't granted the need privileges on
> > > > > /Zope/var/ directory.
> > > >
> > > >    This is a different error, not a problem with port 80, ah?
> > > >
> > > I see Oleg, more exactly I would start ZServer with an user like 'zope', for
> > > example, but at the same time I want it links the port 80!
> > > 
> > > I could use the root user simply but I'll lose my sleep :^)
> > > 
> > > Can you give me some input?
> > 
> > If you want to bind to ports <1024 you _must_ be root. ZXope can run as another user (the
> > -u <user> option), but it must be _started_ as root, if you want to bind to port 80.
> > Period.
> > 
> > Sorry, there is no other way, short of making Sope SUID, which is a very, very, very,
> > very, very, very bad idea.
> > 
> 
> Well...
> 
> If you are running on Linux you could simply edit the kernel code to
> elimitate the check on being root to bind to low ports.  That's what
> we did. 
> 
> -- cary
> 
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