Zope on port 80

Klaus Alexander Seistrup spam at magnetic-ink.dk
Wed Jan 15 04:17:30 EST 2003


Andrew Veitch wrote:

> On Unix you have to be root to open port 80 and it's better if
> you can run Zope as a user other than root in case of security
> problems.

Zope will open the ports, then setgid() and setuid() itself to a
non-privileged user, so running Zope on port 80 is not a problem.

See z2.py for the exact details.


  // Klaus

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