[Mailman-Users] Messages silently disappearing

[Greg Stein]

Wes Morriston wrote:
> ...
> The following, I discovered, does cause the messages to be delivered.
> 
>    chmod +s /usr/bin/python
> 
> I hope it is not too dangerous to run python as root.

If you have interactive users on that machine, then you're in big
trouble. Somebody could simply do: python -c
"open('/etc/passwd','w').write('root::0:0root:/:/bin/bash\n')"

You'd be history then.

I'm not sure about the rest of your issue (I haven't followed it closely
enuf), but I *HIGHLY* recommend that you take that +s off of python
immediately. Even if you don't have interactive users, that is scary as
all hell.

-g

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