Jeff White wrote: >I recently migrated all my lists to a new Solaris system running >2.1.14+patch but I'm having trouble determining who should own the >aliases file and what uid/gid is used for what. > >Apache httpd runs as the user httpd >Mailman runs as the user mailman >Postfix runs as the user postfix > >I compiled with: > >./configure --with-username=mailman --with-cgi-gid=httpd >--with-groupname=mailman --with-mail-gid=nobody >--with-var-prefix=/var/mailman --with-urlhost=list.pitt.edu >--with-mailhost=list.pitt.edu > > >Aliases is owned by root:mailman
Normally for Mailman/Postfix integration, Mailman is configured with --with-mail-gid=mailman and data/aliases.db is owned by mailman:mailman. The owner of data/aliases is not important, but the group should be 'mailman'. >With this setup everything on the command line works such as >bin/new_list and I can send mail to lists. What does not work is >creating lists via the Web interface which gives: >command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /var/mailman/data/aliases (status: >1, Not owner) > >If I change the ownership of the aliases to httpd:mailman that error >goes away and I can create lists via the Web, but mail stops flowing with: >Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be >executed as group "nobody", but the system's mail server executed the >mail script as group "httpd". Try tweaking the mail server to run the >script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command >line option `--with-mail-gid=httpd'. Are you sure you mean 'aliases'? Normally, only the ownership of aliases.db is significant. See the DELIVERY RIGHTS section in 'man 8 local'. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
