[Mailman-Users] 2.0.5 issues persist on RH70 (corrected)

Pug Bainter pug at pug.net
Wed May 9 05:03:03 CEST 2001


Joe Morris (morris at unc.edu) said something that sounded like:
> 4.  Rerun check_perms and it finds 11 problems all related to files that
> are not set-gid.  Why did it return differently this time after I set the
> owner of all files to mailman?!?

Because for security purposes the OS removes the set-gid bit after a
chown or chgrp.

Ciao,

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