[Mailman-Users] Permissions on Mailman Archive Directory

[Barry Finkel]

I have a question about permissions for the archive directory.
I am migrating my Mailman server from an Ubuntu Dapper server
on which I installed my own package, built from the SourceForge
source, to an Ubuntu Lucid server, where I am installing the
Ubuntu/Debian package.  The directory in question is

      /var/lib/mailman/archives/private

On my production Dapper server, I have

      drwxrws--x 904 www-data list 24576 2011-02-09 14:17 .

On my test Lucid server I have

      drwxrws--- 10 root list 4096 2011-02-17 11:19 .

There are two differences:

      owner: www-data vs. root
      group execute privileges

In the current configuration I cannot get from the web to the list
archives.  I tried changing the ownership to www-data, and that worked.
I then reset the owner back to root and added group execute
privileges, and that also worked.

What is suggested as the preferred fix?  Thanks.
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