[Mailman-Users] Group Writable

[David L Brown]

Do what I did for v2.0.8. After installing mailman do a

  chmod g-w ~mailman

AFAIK nothing writes to the top level mailman directory after the
installation. All writing is done to subdirectories. I hope this is
still true in 2.1.

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:56:08PM -0500, jsingh wrote:
> I have looked through sendmail for the 'DontBlameSendmail' issue but I
> don't want to give up on security to fix this problem.
> I checked my permissions and everything is just according to the mailman
> documentation. How can I take care of this problem without having to
> compromise security ?
> Thanks
> jack
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at nc.rr.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:13 PM
> To: jsingh at fdu.edu; mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Group Writable
>  
> The setting is in your sendmail.cf file.  It's something like
> "DontBlameSendmail". You can find details at:
>   http://www.sendmail.org
>  
> Good Luck - Jon Carnes (from the road)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: jsingh <mailto:jsingh at fdu.edu>  
> To: mailman-users at python.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:10 PM
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Group Writable
>  
> I keep getting this re occurring error can anyone tell me ,how to get
> rid of this
>  
> Nov 26 17:04:02 dragon sendmail[31575]: gAQM42AN032413: forward
> /home/mailman/.forward: World writable directory
> Nov 26 17:05:02 dragon sendmail[9465]: gAQM52AN007811: forward
> /home/mailman/.forward.dragon: World writable directory
>  
> thanks
>  
> Jaskaran Singh
> University Systems & Security
> Fairleigh Dickinson University
> Teaneck, NJ 07666
>  
> 
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