[Mailman-Users] Passwords of members UPDATE

[Jon Carnes]

Catching up on a few of your messages...

I'm betting that your Web-server runs as user nobody, so changes via the
web to the list config may end-up as being owned by "nobody".

Shouldn't you have the sticky bit set for the group on all those
directories and files (if the check came back okay then it must be
correct - sorry).

What are you using for Password authentication on your system?  Are you
using PAMs?  What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like (are you
using NIS)?

What happens when you run the site password program?

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 11:57, Steve Rifkin wrote:
> Going an extra step, I compiled python 2.2.2 and put it in place.
> 
> I then rebuilt mailman (based on the new python).  Again, mailman works EXCEPT 
> FOR list admin passwords.
> 
> I'm running out of options.  I'm now at python 2.2.2 and mailman 2.0.13, and my 
> list admins cannot log in, but the site admin and users can.
> 
> When the site admin changes the list admin password for a list, should there be 
> a confirmation of the change AFTER submit is clicked?
> 
> WHOA!  Here is something weird... all my mailman files are owned by user mailman 
> and group mailman. 
> 
> At the list level, for a test list (mmtest), the dir looks like:
> 
> -rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:48 config.db
> -rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:47 config.db.last
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       869 Dec 26 16:57 request.db
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       189 Jan 30  2002 handle_opts.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1026 Jan 30  2002 headfoot.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      3136 Jan 30  2002 listinfo.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      4106 Jan 30  2002 options.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1169 Jan 30  2002 roster.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       198 Jan 30  2002 subscribe.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1706 Jan 30  2002 admindbpreamble.html
> 
> 
>  That's ok.  HOWEVER, whenever I log into a list or try to make changes to a 
> list as the site admin, the ownership changes for config.db:
>  
>  -rw-rw----   1 nobody   mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:50 config.db
> -rw-rw----   1 mailman  mailman      3082 Dec 27 11:48 config.db.last
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       869 Dec 26 16:57 request.db
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       189 Jan 30  2002 handle_opts.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1026 Jan 30  2002 headfoot.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      3136 Jan 30  2002 listinfo.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      4106 Jan 30  2002 options.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1169 Jan 30  2002 roster.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman       198 Jan 30  2002 subscribe.html
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman  mailman      1706 Jan 30  2002 admindbpreamble.html
> 
> 
> And the filesize for config.db does not change.  I suspect that the config.db 
> file is not changing at all when I attempt changes logged in as the site admin.
> 
> The only change to the file is config.db's ownership keeps changing to nobody!
> 
> Why?
> 
> Maybe the above is a clue to the problem!
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Steve
> steve410 at cs.jhu.edu
> 
>