Patches item #444884, was opened at 2001-07-26 18:27 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444884&group_id=103 Category: Pipermail Group: Mailman 2.2 / 3.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: Integration of Mailman & htdig for archi Initial Comment: This patch is applicable to Mailman 2.0.6 release that has had search enhancement patch 444879 patch installed - if your Defaults.py has the ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE and ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE in it then you've got that patch. It replaces earlier patches 401670 and 402423 and is mainly to correct some problems arising from fixes introduced into Mailman by bug fix releases since the 402423 patch. This patch integrates htdig with Mailman and provides: 1. per list search facility with a search form on the list's TOC page. 2. maintenance of privacy of private archives which requires the user to establish their credentials via the normal private archive access before any access via htdig is allowed. 3. a common base URL for both public and private archive access via htsearch results so that htdig indices are unaffected by changingan archive from private to public and vice versa. All access to archives via htdig is controlled by a new wrapped cgi- bin script called htdig.py. 4. a new cron activated script and extra crontab entry which runs htdig regularly to maintain the per list search indices. 5. automatic creation, deletion and maintenance of htdig configuration files and such. Beyond installing htdig and telling Mailman where it is via mm_cfg you do not have to do any other setup. Well not quite you do have to set up a single per installation symlink to allow htdig to find the automatically generated per list htdig configuration files. You probably want to run this patch as follows: cd <mailman 2.0.6 untarred and unzipped directory> patch -p1 < <this patch file> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2003-02-05 18:12

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 It seems it is possible, if this patch is installed, for a list's htdig conf file and the list specific htdig index db files to be read directly through the web interface for list archives. Even if this patch isn't installed it seems a list's pipermail.pck file can also be read directly through the web interface for list archives. This seems to be true for accesses via /pipermail for public lists and via /mailman/private for private lists. The problem does not occur for htdig search results accessed via /mailman/htdig as the htdig.py script is more protective than private.py Broadly speaking the data affected is availble to a user in normal operation which is why I do not consider the issue to be a security breach as such. Adding the following RewriteRule to Apache's httpd.conf prevents the situation, assuming you got the RewriteEngine On: RewriteRule ^(/pipermail/.*)/(pipermail.pck|htdig/[^/]*)$ $1/index.html [F] RewriteRule ^(/mailman/private/.*)/(pipermail.pck|htdig/[^/]*)$ $1/index.htm l [F] You could, of course, substitute an R flag for the F flag on the RewriteRules and be more hacker friendly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2003-01-22 14:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1-0.3.patch corrects yet another bug in htdig.py. Hope that all of them! Stops use of obsolete config variable DEFAULT_HOST in several files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2003-01-15 20:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1-0.2.patch corrects a bug in htdig.py and deals with an adverse interaction between htdig.py and a bug in $prefix/scripts/driver (see #668685 for a patch to fix this). It also improves the content type and security handling by htdig.py for MM 2.1 version of patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2003-01-15 20:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 Uploaded wrong file mailer-2.0.13-0.4.patch on last attempt. Should have been htdig-2.0.13-0.4.patch which improves the content type and security handling by htdig.py for MM 2.0.13 version of patch. Please ignore mailer-2.0.13-0.4.patch file ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2003-01-15 20:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 mailer-2.0.13-0.4.patch improves the content type and security handling by htdig.py for MM 2.0.13 version of patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2003-01-02 16:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-11 11:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b6-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-12-04 10:53 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.13-0.3.patch corrects a minor typo in text appearing in the list TOC after the patch is applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-11-27 10:24 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b5-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-30 11:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b4-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-10-14 11:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b3-0.3.patch removes use of the file() function, used instead of the open() function, in three cron scripts added by the patch. Use of the file() function created an unnecessary dependency on Python 2.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Colin Mackinlay (cmackinlay) Date: 2002-10-12 16:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=624179 Got a workaround! The line referred to in the traceback: file(rundig_run_file, 'w').close() is used to create a 'rundig_last_run' file of lenght 0 bytes Creating this manually (or copying it) means the line isn't called and everything seems to work. Either file() is not a valid function call or my python is broken - I'm not literate enough in python to know the answer though! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Colin Mackinlay (cmackinlay) Date: 2002-10-06 14:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=624179 Just rebuilt MM as 2.1b3 with htdig. Upgraded lists which had htdig before work fine New lists give the obvious error: Unable to read word database file Did you run htmerge? Running the cronjob doesn't fix as it used to, message is: Output from command /usr/bin/python - S /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig .. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig", line 153, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig", line 118, in main file(rundig_run_file, 'w').close() NameError: global name 'file' is not defined The archive/htdig folder only contains the xx.conf file, but no db.xx files If I copy in db.xx files from another list then the problem goes away (except I've now got an invalid set of references!) Is this my elementary error or is it more sinister?! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-15 11:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b3-0.2.patch corrects a dumb syntax error in htdig- 2.1b3-0.1.patch which will typically show up as logged errors in the operation of the ArchRunner qrunner at line 721 of HyperArch.py ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-14 16:51 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2002-08-08 16:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 I've sent Richard some comments off-line about this patch. Meta comments: the 2.0.x patches can't be officially supported, but I'm going to create an unofficial patches page off the wiki for where the 2.0 patches can be migrated. I think this patch set is too big for MM2.1, but if it's cleaned up as per my private message, let's re-evaluate it for MM2.2 (or 3.0). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-05 10:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.13-0.2.patch just adds a GPL notice to the patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-08-01 16:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1b2-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.1b2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-30 11:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.13-0.1.patch is purely cosmetic to get no mumble application to MM 2.0.13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-25 15:07 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 Do not use htdig-2.0.12-0.1.patch there is an error in it. Use htdig-2.0.12-0.2.patch instead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-07-25 14:10 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.12-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that applies without complaint to MM 2.0.12. It also add a facility for adding site wide htdig configuration attributes to all list specific htdig configuration files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-05-23 09:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.11-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.11 This version removes an incompatibility with Python 2.2 which caused warning messages to be generated when any of the family cron/nightly_htdig scripts were run. Some guidance on file access permissions for some htdig database files needed by rundig have been added to installation notes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-19 10:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.10-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-04-08 17:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.0.9-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with MM 2.0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2002-03-06 16:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1cvs-20020306.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 12:30 GMT 6 Mar 2002 Known deficiency is that the non-English versions of files under $build/templates still contain text in English and need translations I cannot do. Also the necessary pygettext activity and subsequent translations in files under $build/messages remain to be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-17 16:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1cvs-20011217.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman CVS on sourceforge as 11:50 GMT 17 Dec 2001 The only known deficiency is that the non-English versions of files under $build/templates still contain text in English and need translations I cannot do. Also the necessary pygettext activity and subsequent translations in files under $build/messages remain to be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-12-13 16:58 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 htdig-2.1a3-0.1.patch is a revised version of the patch that is compatible with the code published in mailman-2.1a3.tgz on sourceforge. The only known deficiency is that the non-English versions of files under $build/templates still contain text in English and need translations I cannot do. Also the necessary pygettext activity and subsequent translations in files under $build/messages remain to be done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-28 17:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 The htdig-2.0.8-0.1.patch version of the patch resolves a problem that can arise with htdig indexing if the web_page_url for a list uses other than the http addressing (some folks want to use https). While specified as for MM 2.0.8 the revised patch should work OK with 2.0.7, 2.0.6 and probably back as far as 2.0.3. If you do not have the requirement for using other than http addressing in you lists web_page_urls it probably isn't worth the trouble of upgrading to this patch level. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-28 11:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to MM 2.0.8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-27 12:00 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 This patch should also apply without problems to Mm 2.0.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Barrett (ppsys) Date: 2001-11-09 11:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=75166 The htdig-2.0.6-03.patch version of the patch makes some previously hard-coded things configurable and enhances the capability to run the htdig searches and indexing on a different machine to the one delivering Mailman and Mailman's web UI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=444884&group_id=103