OK. I see that. Here's is what I got: -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Aug 16 23:04 ../data/adm.pw
I'm a member of mailman, but am not root. Do I break the installation by asking root to reset these permissions with chmod g+w? -- Hugh >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 02 08:57:53 2004 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mmsitepass broken in v 2.1.5? Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:56:51 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2 Sep 2004, at 09:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > These are the errors I get. > Any clues? > > bash-2.05$ ./mmsitepass > New site password: > Again to confirm password: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./mmsitepass", line 105, in ? > main() > File "./mmsitepass", line 96, in main > Utils.set_global_password(pw1, siteadmin) > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 328, in > set_global_password > fp = open(filename, 'w') > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/data/adm.pw' > bash-2.05$ > The script is not broken but the permissions on the cited file do not allow write for the userid/groupid you executed the script as. Check the file's permissions and the userid you are running as. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/