[Mailman-Users] error during admin auth

[Dan Mick]

Gerhard reports it was the Openwall security patches at fault,
although apparently not the hard-link patch (?) (I'm hoping this
was a mistake).

Gerhard Mourani wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to configure my mailling list through the administrative
> authentication web page and receive the following error:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 136, in main
>     mlist.Save()
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 847, in Save
>     self.__save(dict)
>   File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 822, in __save
>     os.link(fname, fname_last)
> OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
> 
> The problem is "Operation not permitted" why??
> 
> The directory under where mailman is installed is as follow:
> 
> drwxrwsr-x   16 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:53 .
> drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4096 Aug 30 17:53 ..
> drwxrwsr-x    8 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:55 Mailman
> drwxrwsr-x    4 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:53 archives
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:53 bin
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:53 cgi-bin
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:54 cron
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:54 data
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:53 filters
> drwxrwsr-x    3 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:57 lists
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 31 00:38 locks
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:58 logs
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:53 mail
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 16:48 qfiles
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 18:00 scripts
> drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Aug 30 17:53 templates
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> / / Gerhard Mourani
> 
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