On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 13:08, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: ... >>However, I, as a list user, cannot get access to the archives for a >>list. When I try to look at the archives through the link on the >>Welcome message I get the following: >> >> Forbidden >> >> You don't have permission to access /pipermail/grads/ on this server. >> >>I tried changing the example line in the mailman.conf file from: >> >> Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ ... >>I have searched this list for "pipermail" but see no similar problem. >> >>I'm sure I've missed a note somewhere but I'm not sure how to proceed. >> The mailman docs talk about permissions and the mailman user but >>Ubuntu installs all mailman files with root:list ownership which seems >>to work for all else. All the directories under /var/lib/mailman have >>these permissions: >> >> drwxrwsr-x 4 root list > > If that includes /var/lib/mailman/archives/private, then that's OK. > Otherwise note that /var/lib/mailman/archives/private must be o+x or > must have user:group xxx:list where xxx is the user that the web > server uses to access files.
Aha, I missed the fine details of one important directory: the archives/private directory did not have these permissions: drwxrwsr-x 4 root list Instead it had these: drwxrws--- 4 root list As root I excuted chmod o+xr private and now all works as advertised! Thanks a heap, Mark. I shall file a bug with Ubuntu. Best regards. -Tom Thomas M. Browder, Jr. Niceville, Florida USA ------------------------------------------------------ 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
