Bug#356750: [Pkg-zope-developers] Bug#356750: broken product CMFUid

[Matthias Klose]

Fabio Tranchitella writes:
> Il giorno mer, 15/03/2006 alle 10.10 -0500, Stefano Zacchiroli ha
> scritto:
> > > The best way to experiment with new packages is to remove the directory
> > > in /var/lib/zopeZVER/instance/INSTANCE/Product/THE_PRODUCT and to
> > > replace it with a symlink to the product you want to test, but if you
> > 
> > That's a good one. Still it can't be used by a non-root user (there are
> > some other problems IMO in using zope in Debian related to this non-root
> > problem, but we can discuss them separately). What about providing a
> > command to dzhandle that enable doing so? This way one can think at
> > either using dzhandle with sudo or setting up special groups with the
> > needed permissions and having dzhandle setgid.
> 
> Ok, let's move the discussion on the debian zope mailing list.
> 
> Actually, non-root users can't create and manage zope instances using
> dzhandle and the only problem that come up in my mind is that they
> wouldn't be able to write the configuration files under /etc and the log
> directories under /var/log.
> 
> I think these obstacles could be removed, but maybe there are other
> issues that have to be dealed with. In your opinion, what are the other
> problems which prevent non-root users to create a zope instance?

Somebody mentioned, that he would like to be able to create instances
in the user's home dir using dzhandle, so that the setup could be used
for classes as well, without requiring root or other permissions.