"VK" == Vivek Khera khera@kciLink.com writes:
VK> The web site says that Python 1.5 or newer is required. It
VK> seems to be that 1.5.1 or newer is required, as the "getpass"
VK> module does not exist in 1.5.I missed an import in bin/newlist. See patch below.
VK> Also, under BSD/OS unix (and most BSD in general) the group
VK> setgid bit is not necessary on directories -- the default
VK> bahavior is to use the directory's group when creating new
VK> files. Having the setgid bit causes annoying security alerts,
VK> but is otherwise harmless.What kind of security alerts? I think it's probably more common (Solaris for sure, Linux??) to require the g+s bit on dirs.
VK> The INSTALL document says that the default list for
VK> --with-mail-gid is 'other daemon'. However, the wrapper on my
VK> system was build to be setgid mailman.Do you mean that it was built with mail-gid `mailman' by default? This setting anyway is highly dependent on MTA.
-Barry
Index: newlist
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/mailman/bin/newlist,v retrieving revision 1.23 retrieving revision 1.24 diff -c -r1.23 -r1.24 *** newlist 1999/02/10 23:15:53 1.23 --- newlist 1999/02/27 18:05:43 1.24
*** 31,37 ****
import sys, os, string import time ! import getpass import paths # path hacking from Mailman import MailList from Mailman import Utils --- 31,41 ----
import sys, os, string import time ! try: ! import getpass ! except ImportError: ! # we must be in Python 1.5, which didn't have the getpass module ! from Mailman.pythonlib import getpass import paths # path hacking from Mailman import MailList from Mailman import Utils