Help for installing Plone CMS on FreeBSD

[W. Anderson]

I need help in the installation of Plone 3.3 Unified Installer on FreeBSD.

The install "first stage" - using Zeo root install - completes
successfully, however when attempting
to start the instance, I get an error message that "user zeo" is not found.

Apparently the install line command " ./install.sh zeo"  set  'user' zeo
as owner of Plone instance rather
than user plone.

How can I correct this situation without re-install, and if I need a
re-install, will the command
"./install.sh zeo plone" work instead?

Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated, as I wish to get site up
ASAP.

Wendell Anderson
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[Steve McMahon]

Hi Wendell,

When you set up a ZEO cluster with the unified installer running as root, it *should* create two users: zeo and plone. The zeo user is used to run the ZEO server daemon and the plone user should run the clients. It sounds like the user-creation code needs to be revisited for FreeBSD. Could you let us know which FreeBSD version you're running.

Meanwhile, you can just use the usual BSD utilities to create the zeo and plone users. Either reinstall or rerun buildout afterwards to get the file ownerships right.

Steve

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM, W. Anderson <[hidden email]> wrote:

I need help in the installation of Plone 3.3 Unified Installer on FreeBSD.

The install "first stage" - using Zeo root install - completes successfully, however when attempting
to start the instance, I get an error message that "user zeo" is not found.

Apparently the install line command " ./install.sh zeo"  set  'user' zeo as owner of Plone instance rather
than user plone.

How can I correct this situation without re-install, and if I need a re-install, will the command
"./install.sh zeo plone" work instead?

Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated, as I wish to get site up ASAP.

Wendell Anderson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve McMahon <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email] <[hidden email]>
Sent: Sat Sep 12 18:32:35 2009
Subject: Re: [Setup] Help for installing Plone CMS on FreeBSD

Hi Wendell,

When you set up a ZEO cluster with the unified installer running as root, it *should* create two users: zeo and plone. The zeo user is used to run the ZEO server daemon and the plone user should run the clients. It sounds like the user-creation code needs to be revisited for FreeBSD. Could you let us know which FreeBSD version you're running.

Meanwhile, you can just use the usual BSD utilities to create the zeo and plone users. Either reinstall or rerun buildout afterwards to get the file ownerships right.

Steve


On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM, W. Anderson <[hidden email]> wrote:


        I need help in the installation of Plone 3.3 Unified Installer on FreeBSD.
       
        The install "first stage" - using Zeo root install - completes successfully, however when attempting
        to start the instance, I get an error message that "user zeo" is not found.
       
        Apparently the install line command " ./install.sh zeo"  set  'user' zeo as owner of Plone instance rather
        than user plone.
       
        How can I correct this situation without re-install, and if I need a re-install, will the command
        "./install.sh zeo plone" work instead?
       
        Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated, as I wish to get site up ASAP.
       
        Wendell Anderson
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[Steve McMahon]

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While I am unfamiliar with using buildout to reconfigure users, I can at least attempt to change client user from zeo to plone.

It will be better to use the BSD procedures to create a zeo user, ideally without a home directory or shell. However, that will work if you don't mind having the reduced security of running the zeo server under the same user identity as the clients.

Run bin/buildout after doing that to get the permissions set right on the file system.
 

If I need to reinstall, will the command "./install.sh zeo plone" accomplish a correct install?

No. Run install.sh with no arguments to get command line help. If your goal is use one user id rather than two, you could instead run the installer under the target user id rather than via sudo or su to root.

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