[Mailman-Users] OpenBSD Trusted Path Execution (TPE) compatibility?

Barry A. Warsaw barry at digicool.com
Tue Jul 10 03:51:25 CEST 2001


>>>>> "JJ" == Joshua Jore <moomonk at daisy-chan.org> writes:

    JJ> I can see an immediate problem where mailman owns it's own
    JJ> directories and binaries. Does mailman fail any other the
    JJ> other tests? (It's always possible to designate mailman as a
    JJ> trusted user so it doesn't have these restrictions but I'd
    JJ> rather not if I don't have to)

Mailman's security is based on group ownership of files.  That's why
it builds setgid binaries to wrap around the mail and cgi interfaces.
Does the TPE mess with group ownerships?

-Barry




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