[Zope] Suggestions for improving http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/zopeinstall/ZOPE-INSTALL-HOWTO

[Frank Tegtmeyer]

Douglas Carnall <dougie@carnall.org> writes:

> All this futzing with security is important because we're going to start
> Zope as the root user. When Zope is started as root, it executes programs
> kept in the Zope directory as the root user before it switches user context
> to the nobody user.

Is there _any_ need to have Zope started as root? 
I never did this and hadn't problems with this approach yet. Even the
Zope tree is only readable for Zope on my systems (after one initial
start to get the pyc-files).

Regards, Frank