------ Original Message ------ Received: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:47:27 PM EST From: Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 initial config problems (virtual hosts andpermissions)
> > Unfortunately, check_perms won't catch the permission problem with the > alias database file(s). You want aliases.dir and aliases.pag to be > group writable. All the alias files should be owned by mailman and be > in group mailman. Then postalias should work and you'll be able to > create lists from the web. > and ------ Original Message ------ Received: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 03:51:08 PM EST From: Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 initial config problems (virtual hostsandpermissions) > > Mailman's security and permissions are based on the group. You will > note that both the mailman/ and mailman/data directories are group > "rws" group mailman, so the scripts which are running under group > 'mailman' as set by the cgi-bin wrapper can do their things OK, but it > seems that Postfix's postalias command wants the executing user (not > group) to own the aliases file. > Thanks for the help everyone I seem to be in business now. Both problems were related to the group ownership/permissions of the alias files. I never did find out how/why aliases kept reverting back to root. It doesn't seem to be happening now but I'll keep an eye on it. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&fileúq01.027.htp
