[Mailman-Users] mailman on freeBSD 8.2: getgrgid error

[Rekhesh Mohan]

On 01/08/2011 Odhiambo Washington wrote
> What is the output of this command on your system:
> 
> grep www /etc/group

Here is the output:

[root at foo ~]# grep www /etc/group
www:*:80:www
[root at foo ~]# 

Thanks! 

--R

> 
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 23:27, Rekhesh Mohan <reks at iiap.res.in> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I've been fiddling with mailman 2.1.14 (from freebsd ports) on free
> > BSD 8.2. Everything seems to be fine so far except for the web
> > based stuff. I get the following error when I try to access the
> > page:
> > 
> > http://this.great.site/mailman/listinfo
> > 
> > -------<error>--------
> > 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 80.  Mailman
> > expected the CGI wrapper to be executed as group
> > "www", but the system's web server executed the
> > wrapper as GID 80 for which the name could not be
> > found.  Try adding GID 80 to your system as "www",
> > or tweak your web server to run the wrapper as group
> > "www".
> > -------</error>---------
> > 
> > This system has a www user and gid is 80 (group = www). In the
> > first attempt, I let freebsd choose its own configure-arguments
> > and later I tried it myself. Error remained the same.
> > 
> > AFAIK, src/common.c is checking the GID with getgid() followed by
> > getgrgid(). Now, my machine uses blowfish instead of md5 for
> > passwd. getgid() is returning 80 - which is fine since i have
> > gid(www) = 80 on my system. However, getgrgid(gid) returns null
> > :-|  I gave up my fight at that point and decided to ask for help
> > :)
> > 
> > I tried to figure out the behaviour of these functions with a small
> > test code: getgrgid() returns gr_passwd = * for blowfish, and
> > gr_passwd = x for md5. Is that an issue with mailman or am I
> > making mistakes somewhere else in the installation? My apache
> > config is given below (I followed the steps in installation doc.)
> > 
> > Thanks in advance..!
> > 
> > ---------<apache-config4mailman>----------------
> > ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
> > Alias /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"
> > 
> > <Directory "/usr/local/mailman">
> > 
> >   Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
> >   AllowOverride None
> >   Order allow,deny
> >   Allow from all
> > 
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$
> > http://this.great.site/mailman/listinfo/
> > ---------</apache-config4mailman>----------------
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