[Mailman-Users] Permissions on public archives (apache 403)

[Michael Berkowski]

Hi again Mark,

> >[root at othello httpd]# tail -n 4 error_log
> >
> >[Fri May 26 10:30:33 2006] [error] [client 160.94.15.144] (13)Permission
> >denied: access to /pipermail/minitex-news denied
> 
> 
> There is a permissions issue somewhere?
> 
> 
> >> >[root at othello mailman]# ls -l /var/lib/mailman
> >> >total 68
> >> >drwxrwsr-x   5 mailman mailman  4096 May 19 11:43 archives
> >> >drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman 16384 May 26 09:45 data
> >> >drwxrwsr-x  72 mailman mailman  4096 May 22 16:03 lists
> >> >drwxrwsr-x   3 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:35 locks
> >> >drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:15 logs
> >> >drwxrwsr-x  11 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:16 qfiles
> >> >drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:14 spam
> >> >
> >> >[root at othello archives]# ls -l /var/lib/mailman/archives/
> >> >total 32
> >> >drwxrws--x  198 mailman mailman 12288 May 22 16:03 private
> >> >drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman  4096 May 22 16:03 public
> >>
> >>
> >> Permissions look OK too.
> 
> 
> What are the permissions on /var/lib/mailman? Are you running SeLinux
> or any other 'extra' access controls?

SELinux is running and /var/lib/mailman looks like:
drwxrwsr-x   9 mailman mailman 4096 Apr 17 15:17 mailman

I'm pretty well stumped now.  I suspect it may have something to do with the
security on our blogs virtual host.  Our head sysad is on vacation this week
and I've sort of reached my limit of fumbling around.  I think I'll just
have to wait until next week to work it out with him, rather than to begin
eliminating security features, etc.  Anyway, our public archive is rarely
accessed by anyone -- it can wait.

Thanks for all your help,
Michael
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