Re: non-root install of plone

Hi Ralf,

I dont know unified installer very well. But the base idea is to split
service and buildout user. Buildout user needs r/w access for all files,
while service user has no write access to files were read is enough -
for security reasons.

I know several setups where only one user "zope" (or "plone") exists for
both roles - with r/w for the whole buildout. The service user is
defined in the buildout section(s) for the instance(s). Using the same
user is - afaik - officially not recommended. My personal opinion is, in
fact it does not matter that much.

Anyway, with separate service user, it needs (in a standard buildout)
only write access for the ./var directory. Here are the zodb and blob
data, logging and pid files. This assumes precompiled python files
(pyc/pyo) and precompiled gettext translations files (po/mo).
Precompiling happens in buildout at buildout-time.

hth
Jens

On 2015-10-01 12:14, Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> due to some restrictions I don't have root access to a linux box, but
> would like to install plone 5 in a similar way as it is done when
> running install.sh zeo (as root user) from the unified installer.
> In other words the plone maintainer is not the system administrator of
> the machine.
> 
> The users plone_daemon and plone_buildout as well as the group
> plone_group exist in the system and the user 'plone' who is ower of the
> unified installer files and who is supposed to install Plone5 has sudo
> rights for plone_daemon and plone_buildout.
> 
> What is the way to install Plone in such a case?
> Note that I would like the distinction between the daemon and buildout user.
> 
> It's probably easiest to simply do the install as user plone and
> afterwards change the user of the respective files. My problem, however
> is: which files should belong to plone_daemon and which to
> plone_buildout? Is there already a script that I can simply run?
> 
> Thank you
> Ralf
> 
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