[Mailman-Users] Changing the path of cgi-bin

Forrest Aldrich forrie at forrie.com
Wed Jul 13 20:42:12 CEST 2005


Right, exactly.   But what' the best way to do this with Mailman. 



Poster wrote:

>Forrest Aldrich said:
>  
>
>>I've been asked to change the path from ~mailman/cgi-bin to
>>~mailman/something-else, the claim being security (and avoiding skript
>>kiddies).    Though, with the directory aliasing, I don't see where
>>that
>>makes a bit of difference.
>>    
>>
>
>I think what they're trying to avoid are scripts that search for a
>"cgi-bin" directory. If the directory is not cgi-bin, then their
>scripts will fail. My mailman scripts, for instance, live in
>/cgi-bin/mailman.
>
>
>~P
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