[Mailman-Users] Mailman in chrooted OpenBSD

[Patrick Valencia]

I configured it as such:

./configure --prefix=/var/www/mailman --with-mail-gid=67 --with-cgi-gid=67
--with-username=_mailman --with-groupname=_mailman

(using the _mailman user & group from the port install)  and I still get the
same error:

Failure to find group name for GID 67. Mailman
expected the CGI wrapper to be executed as group
"www", but the system's web server executed the
wrapper as GID 67 for which the name could not be
found.  Try adding GID 67 to your system as "www",
or tweak your web server to run the wrapper as group
"www".

I was pretty sure that this would force mailman to look for '67' as the
group, but it seems to still be looking for 'www'.


On 9/7/07, Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> wrote:
>
> Patrick Valencia wrote:
>
> >I need help setting up mailman in a chrooted OpenBSD environment.  I've
> >copied the /usr/local/lib/mailman and /var/spool/mailman directories to
> >/var/www/mailman, as well as the modules it needed, but now I'm getting
> an
> >error that says:
> >
> >Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered
> >a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog:
> >Failure to find group name for GID 67. Mailman
> >expected the CGI wrapper to be executed as group
> >"www", but the system's web server executed the
> >wrapper as GID 67 for which the name could not be
> >found.  Try adding GID 67 to your system as "www",
> >or tweak your web server to run the wrapper as group
> >"www".
> >
> >I believe that a chrooted apache drops the user name and just holds onto
> the
> >user id.  Can anyone help me out with this?  I really need this installed
> >and kinda need to keep the chroot.  If I need to start over with a fresh
> >installation of mailman, that's not a problem.  Any and all help would be
> >GREATLY appreciated!
>
>
> I suggest you try install Mailman from source
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman> and configure it with
>
> --prefix=/var/www/mailman
>
> and
>
> --with-cgi-gid=67
>
> as well as the appropriate --with-mail-gid.
>
> Alternatively, there may be a way to set the expected cgi group in
> whatever package you installed and you might be able to set that to 67.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>