[Zope] new 2.7 redhat rpm and external method permissions

Kalyan Jammigumpula kalyan at srcc.lsu.edu
Tue Sep 21 15:55:02 EDT 2004


Look for zope.conf in $INSTACE_HOME/etc. You should see something like 
effective-user. Set that and that should be all.
-k
Ed Colmar wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I recently installed a new zope 2.7 rpm on redhat.  Everything went smooth
> and zope is running great.
> 
> I have some external methods that do various tasks throughout the
> filesystem.  In this case, the files are in a particular mysql directory.
> 
> I have created a group for zope and mysql called "www" and changed
> ownership of this directory to that group.
> 
> I can read and write to this directory as the zope user.
> 
> My external methods fail with invalid permissions.
> 
> I have verified that the setuid is zope, but I am not positive that zope
> is actually running under the zope user.
> 
> How can I set/verify that this is the case?
> 
> On all of my previous zope installs, I would log in as zope, and do
> ./start  it appears that this convention has changed.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -ed
> 
> 
> 



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