[Mailman-Users] fix permissions error?

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>:

> On 05/09/2017 08:32 AM, Dave Stevens wrote:
>> administrator at web5:/var/lib/mailman/bin$ sudo ./check_perms -f
>> /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> /var/lib/mailman/locks bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing)
>> Problems found: 10
>> Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix
>>
>> after several iterations I still don't see what to do. Doesn't seem to
>> be really fixing anything. Also what list??
>
>
>
> I'm guessing that this is a Debian/Ubuntu package. If you look you'ss
> find all those paths are in fact symlinks to other directories and the
> group and permissions on the actual directory are fine. check_perms
> can't actually change the symlink group and it's not relevant anyway.
>
> the 'list' in 'Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix' refers to
> the user 'list' which is the Debian/Ubuntu Mailman user, not to a
> Mailman list.
>
> In any case, do you have a problem other than the spurious report from
> check_perms?

yes. I made a new empty list and added myself to it and then got this  
message (as usual):

The web page for users of your mailing list is:

     http://choked.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/davedave

Clicking on the link gives first the info page and clicking on its  
archive link gives:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /pipermail/davedave/ on this server.

And that's the issue I was hoping to address by the permissions fix.

Dave





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