[Mailman-Users] Permissions weirdness?

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:56 PM -0500 2003/07/07, Ian Beyer wrote:

>  Hrmm... I'm not quite sure why I (or anyone) would be running both mail
>  and web servers as the same group, unless it was root.

	It does tend to hamstring you, yes.  That's why we installed two 
copies of mailman, with different compiled-in groups.

>  I thought alleviating that was the whole point of the --with-mail-gid
>  and --with-cgi-gid flags at configure time.

	Could be.  Doesn't seem to work for us.

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