[Mailman-Users] mmsitepass broken in v 2.1.5?

[Richard Barrett]

On 2 Sep 2004, at 09:51, hesco at greens.org wrote:

> These are the errors I get.
> Any clues?
>
> bash-2.05$ ./mmsitepass
> New site password:
> Again to confirm password:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./mmsitepass", line 105, in ?
>     main()
>   File "./mmsitepass", line 96, in main
>     Utils.set_global_password(pw1, siteadmin)
>   File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 328, in
> set_global_password
>     fp = open(filename, 'w')
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/data/adm.pw'
> bash-2.05$
>

The script is not broken but the permissions on the cited file do not 
allow write for the userid/groupid you executed the script as. Check 
the file's permissions and the userid you are running as.