On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:47:45AM -0400, Ken Manheimer wrote: | On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Scott wrote: | | > i have installed mailman as part of pilot project to test out new | > mailing list managers for work. | > | > i had to change the ./mailman/mail/wrapper program to check for | > multiple uids and gids to get the cron jobs to work properly (uid and | > gid were that of mailman when sending out results). | > | > has this been incoporated into mailmanv1.0b1.2 yet? if not, here's a | > patch to ./src/mail-wrapper.c (the same change can be applied to the | > other legal_caller() functions in the wrappers): | | This sounds fine. Note that the next release will have a somewhat | simpler wrapper situation - john has consolidated all the cgi wrappers | into a single source file, so there now is a total of three wrappers - | the generic cgi wrapper (which is parameterized to create an executable | for each of the cgi scripts), the mail-wrapper, and the aliases wrapper.

One more thing that may make the installation easier would be to have a single header file that is #included in each c source file with something like

/* legal parent uid's of the wrapper ./mailman/mail/wrapper */ const int LEGAL_MAIL_PUIDS[] = { 0, /* root */ 1, /* bin */ 537, /*mailman */ -1, /* Sentinel, do not remove */ }

or if there's a worry of defining unused variables:

#ifdef MAIL_WRAPPER

[declaration]

#endif

along with a '#define MAIL_WRAPPER 1' in mail-wrapper.c

this way, while whoever is installing the program, they would only have to edit one file to play with the calling uid and gid.

Scott Cotton IC Group, Inc.

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Actually, the ultimate goal is to have as much configuraiton as possible picked out automatically, and the rest of it maintained by a single file, or perhaps a web page.

For example, most of the uids we could do a good job of guessing based on the passwd file, and then keep it open for people to change if they have special considerations.

John