[Mailman-Users] mmsitepass broken in v 2.1.5?

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Sep 2 14:25:37 CEST 2004


At 10:51 AM +0000 2004-09-02, hesco at greens.org wrote:

>  I'm a member of mailman, but am not root.
>  Do I break the installation by asking root
>  to reset these permissions with chmod g+w?

	Yup.  Being in the group, you're allowed to read this file, but 
not write to it.  Only root can write to it.

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