[Pkg-zope-developers] non-root usage of dzhandle

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:38:26PM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> Ok, let's move the discussion on the debian zope mailing list.

Good. BTW, I subscribed just yesterday to the list, no need to Cc-me (of
course you couldn't have known this ...)

> 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?

Well, ATM I frankly don't know the detail since I've not investigated
the implementation of dzhandle, and I'm even quite a newbie of zope
stuff.  If you like I can tell you what, as a user, I would need ...

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