Re: [Mailman-Users] mmsitepass broken in v 2.1.5?

[Richard Barrett]

On 2 Sep 2004, at 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
It will only be a problem if your site manager thinks that it is a bad 
thing letting any userid which is a member of the mailman group change 
the site password. It is a system management/security issue and a 
change should not cause the rest of Mailman's code any direct problem, 
as long as it can still read the stored, encrypted password.

-- 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.
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