On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:58:05AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > > Good Morning, > > With the group write permissions on the directory, it's a little less > secure and I would like to get rid of that. Are there any issues with > getting rid of it? Yes, as soon as root or some other privileged user runs a mailman command, config.db will be owned by a user other than mailman, and your list will stop working. While it is designed to fix a different issue, if you use the securelinux fix in contrib (see your source tree), it should allow you to remove group writeable permissions on dirs. Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users