[Mailman-Users] Prohibiting Local Access to Archives

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Kenneth Jacker wrote:

> I'd like to continue web-access to the archives for list members, but
> prohibit access to local users on the Mailman "host machine". The fact
> that ../mailman/archives/private/ has "drwxrws--x" permissions isn't
> sufficient.

    This isn't a mailman problem, this is a problem with the way you have
your setup.

    For example, all of my users are UID.users, while mailman is
mailman.mailman.  No one in the users group can read anything in the mailman
private directory.  No matter how hard they try.  They can read the public
archives if they so feel like it, but that's it.

    The mailman documentation tells you to create a separate group for it.
There's a reason for that.

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