[Distutils] [buildout] setuptools/buildout trying to use /root/.python-eggs after setuid()ing with Zope

[Andreas Jung]

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Hi there,

I am not sure which component is in charge for the following issue:

 - standard Plone 3.1 installation installed with paster/Zopeskel
   with a 'zope' account without special privileges
 - in the instance is started from through /etc/init.d as root
   but immediately setuid to effective-user 'zope'

 - after setuid(), setuptools is trying to write to /root/.python-eggs
   during the startup-phase for (my own) module zopyx.textindexng3

- - it creates inside:

new:~/.python-eggs # ls -la
total 1
drwxrwxrwx  3 root root   144 Feb  4 13:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root  1200 Feb  4 17:10 ..
- -rw-r--r--  1 zope users    0 Feb  4 13:17 a
drwxr-xr-x  3 zope users   72 Feb  4 13:17
zopyx.textindexng3-4.0.1-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg-tmp

Why is setuptools using /root/.python-eggs only for this particular
module and isn't it using something like /home/zope/.python-eggs
instead - especially having changed the UID already?

Andreas



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