[Mailman-Users] Mailman in chrooted OpenBSD

[Patrick Valencia]

Matter of fact, when I configure it, the DCGI_GROUP="\"www\"" and so does
the DMAIL_GROUP.  I think it's taking the 67 as a gid and finding the group
it belongs to.  I'm still not exactly sure how it can't see the gid when it
goes to run the cgi script  I thought it would be able to, especially since
the set_gid bit is enabled.  Would it help if I added a /var/www/etc/group
file with 67 mapped to 'www'?

On 9/7/07, Patrick Valencia <pvalencia357 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
>