[Mailman-Users] Error on attempt to create a List in Mailman 2.1.7-15.12.1 from Mailman Web admin UI

[Mailman Admin]

Hello Stephen J. Turnbull


On 2012-06-25 09:37, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Mailman Admin writes:
> 
>  > The problem is, that even after bin/fixurl is run, the archive directory
>  > /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ has owner:group = mailman:mailman .
>  > You have to set it to wwwrun:mailman, in order for the apache server to
>  > have write access to it too.
> 
> The httpd doesn't need access to the archives; the mailman CGI does.
> So the CGI wrapper should be setgid mailman.  Is it?
> 

Yes it is.

ls -ld /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Jun 14 08:37 /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/

ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
total 144
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10832 May 18 19:18 admin
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 admindb
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 confirm
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 create
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 editarch
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 edithtml
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 listinfo
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 options
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 private
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 rmlist
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 roster
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 10840 May 18 19:18 subscribe


>  > This was changed by the last update of mailman via SLES 10 updates,
>  > therefore is a distro bug.
> 
> +1 to that, though.
> 


Kind regards,
Christian Mack