On 8/2/2009 5:13 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > It's not supposed to work. mailman privileges should only be > accessible by the system administrator, ie, someone who has the root > password.
Ah, ok, that makes sense... > It's not a problem with the password for the mailman user. :-) > > The init script itself may be broken. AFAIK, the init script should > be invoking the set-gid binary called "mailman" or "wrapper". This > just cleans up the environment, changes the effective user id to > mailman, and execs the command specified. (There's no good reason for > *any* mailman program to be on anybody's PATH, Iirc, with gentoo it is only for the mailman user, so running the command as su - mailman gets the path/prefix... > The best thing to do at this point is to run the check_perms script > provided with mailman. It usually resides in $prefix/lib/mailman/bin, > but since your installation is non-standard, you may have to search > a bit. I thought about doing that, but the 'authentication failure' I got in the logs was leading me to believe it was a mailman user passwd issue, but now, after your explanation and looking more closely at the error, I see it wasn't having trouble with the execution of the mailman start command, it was having trouble with the su - mailman command... man, I hate being so blind for a sighted person... ;) I'll check this when I get into the office in a few hours... Thanks Stephen... ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
