[Mailman-Users] Mailman website problems. some cgi's work, some don't

Fri Apr 11 01:32:56 CEST 2003

Howdy Ben,

What is GID 501?   Maybe the group ID for Mailman?
What is GID 48?  Maybe the group ID for Apache?

(I can't find my paperwork so the next bit is from memory)

You need to look closely at the INSTALL read me.  The install has
a script which will check file and folder permissions for you.

Then you need to look at how Mailman was configured.  You can request
specific UIDs or GIDs for the wrapper and web interface.  In my case, I
thought the defaults would work, but they failed so I had to hardwire
it according to my Apache and Sendmail configuration files.  I believe
at the end of the file, in the FAQ is a description how to back out of
a bad configuration.  I didn't have to use it.

Hope the fix is easy.

Peace,
G

--- 3:30:47 PM, you wrote:

> Hello,

> I have posted this in the past, but not recieved a reply.

> I can access all the user pages fine, to edit a user and login to change
> user prefs, so I am assuming that CGI is working correctly -- Is this a
> good assumption?

> When I go to log in to the Administrative page, I get an error
> "Authorization Failed" from mailman.

> I am positive this has nothing to do with cookie settings on my browser,
> I have checked it from multiple browsers, running on every platform
> available -- and I checked to be sure the browsers was correctly saving
> cookies, and it is b/c other sites are using them just fine.

> As a test, one which i don't know if it means the right thing, I ran
> cgi-bin/admin program from the command line. -- the error message is at
> the bottom of this messgae -- I just ran it as my own user through the
> ssh shell, so it is probably not the right user anyway... however it may
> be something.

> This was installed from rpm, and i did a find on my system and there is
> no source installed on the system, so i'm not sure where to begin if i
> need to reconfigure, ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!

> <head>
> <title>Mailman CGI error!!!</title>
> </head><body>
> <h1>Mailman CGI error!!!</h1>
> The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set
> by the Web server.<p>The most likely cause is that Mailman was
> configured and installed incorrectly.  Please read the INSTALL
> instructions again, paying close attention to the
> <tt>--with-cgi-gid</tt> configure option.  This entry is being stored in
> your syslog:
> <pre>
> Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 48, GOT gid 501.  (Reconfigure to
> take 501?)</pre>

> Ben Strawbridge - Senior Interface Engineer
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