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Kirill Smelkov
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Setting the initial user name and password
=====================
=====================
Filesytem Permissions
=====================
Because Zope is managed through the web, user names and passwords must be
used to assure that only authorized people can make changes to a Zope
installation.
Some user name and password is needed to "bootstrap" the creation of
normal managers of your Zope site. This is accomplished through the
use of the file 'inituser'. The first time Zope starts, it will detect
that no users have been defined in the root user folder. It will search
for the 'inituser' file and, if it exists, will add the user defined
in the file to the root user folder.
Normally, 'inituser' is created by the Zope install scripts. Either
the installer prompts for the password or a randomly generated
password is created and displayed at the end of the build script.
You can use the 'zpasswd.py' script to create 'inituser' yourself.
Execute 'zpasswd.py' like this::
python zpasswd.py inituser
The script will prompt you for the name, password, and allowed
domains. The default is to encode the password with SHA, so please
remember this password as there is no way to recover it (although
'zpasswd.py' lets you reset it.)
In some situations you may need to bypass normal security controls
because you have lost your password or because the security settings
have been mixed up. Zope provides a facility called an "emergency
user" so that you can reset passwords and correct security
settings.
The emergency user password must be defined outside the application
user interface. It is defined in the 'access' file located
in the Zope directory. It should be readable only by the user
as which your web server runs.
To create the emergency user, use 'zpasswd.py' to create the
'access' file like this::
python zpasswd.py access
In order to provide a somewhat higher level of security, various
encoding schemes are supported which provide access to either SHA-1
encryption or the standard UNIX crypt facility if it has been compiled
into Python. Unless you have some special requirements (see below),
you should use the SHA-1 facility, which is the default.
Format of 'inituser' and 'access'
---------------------------------
A password file should consist of a single line of the form::
name:password
Note that you may also add an optional third component to the line in the
access file to restrict access by domain. For example, the line::
mario:nintendoRules:*.mydomain.com
in your 'access' file will only allow permit emergency user access
from `*.mydomain.com` machines. Attempts to access the system from
other domains will fail, even if the correct emergency user name
and password are used.
Please note that if you use the ZServer monitor capability, you will
need to run with a clear text password.
Setting permissions on the var directory
----------------------------------------
You need to set permissions on the Zope var directory.
Zope needs to read and write data from its var directory. Before
You need to set permissions on the directory Zope uses to store its
data. This will normally be the `var` directory in the instance home.
Zope needs to read and write data to this directory. Before
running Zope you should ensure that you give adequate permissions
to th
e Zope var
directory for the userid Zope will run under.
to th
is
directory for the userid Zope will run under.
Depending on how you choose to run Zope you will need to give
different permissions to the
var
directory. If you use Zope with an
different permissions to the directory. If you use Zope with an
existing web server, it will probably run Zope as 'nobody'. In this
case 'nobody' needs read and write permissions to the var directory.
If you change the way you run Zope you may need to modify the permissions
of the
var
directory and the files in it to allow Zope to read and write
If you change the way you run Zope
,
you may need to modify the permissions
of the directory and the files in it to allow Zope to read and write
under its changed userid.
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Special Users
=============
Because Zope is managed through the web, user names and passwords must be
used to assure that only authorized people can make changes to a Zope
installation.
Adding Managers
---------------
If you need to add a Manager to an existing Zope instance, you can do
this using `zopectl` as follows::
zopectl adduser `name` `password`
The Initial User
----------------
An initial username and password is needed to "bootstrap" the creation of
normal managers of your Zope site. This is accomplished through the
use of the 'inituser' file in the directory specified as the instance
home.
The first time Zope starts, it will detect
that no users have been defined in the root user folder. It will search
for the 'inituser' file and, if it exists, will add the user defined
in the file to the root user folder.
Normally, 'inituser' is created by the Zope install scripts. Either
the installer prompts for the password or a randomly generated
password is created and displayed at the end of the build script.
You can use the 'zpasswd.py' script to create 'inituser' yourself.
Execute 'zpasswd.py' like this::
python zpasswd.py inituser
The script will prompt you for the name, password, and allowed
domains. The default is to encode the password with SHA, so please
remember this password as there is no way to recover it (although
'zpasswd.py' lets you reset it.)
The Emergency User
------------------
In some situations you may need to bypass normal security controls
because you have lost your password or because the security settings
have been mixed up. Zope provides a facility called an "emergency
user" so that you can reset passwords and correct security
settings.
The emergency user password must be defined outside the application
user interface. It is defined in the 'access' file located
in the Zope directory. It should be readable only by the user
as which your web server runs.
To create the emergency user, use 'zpasswd.py' to create the
'access' file like this::
python zpasswd.py access
In order to provide a somewhat higher level of security, various
encoding schemes are supported which provide access to either SHA-1
encryption or the standard UNIX crypt facility if it has been compiled
into Python. Unless you have some special requirements (see below),
you should use the SHA-1 facility, which is the default.
Format of 'inituser' and 'access'
---------------------------------
A password file should consist of a single line of the form::
name:password
Note that you may also add an optional third component to the line in the
access file to restrict access by domain. For example, the line::
mario:nintendoRules:*.mydomain.com
in your 'access' file will only allow permit emergency user access
from `*.mydomain.com` machines. Attempts to access the system from
other domains will fail, even if the correct emergency user name
and password are used.
Please note that if you use the ZServer monitor capability, you will
need to run with a clear text password.
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WHATSNEW.rst
CHANGES.rst
INSTALL.rst
USERS.rst
SECURITY.rst
SETUID.rst
SIGNALS.rst
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