[Mailman-Users] 2.0.5 issues persist on RH70 (corrected)

[Joe Morris]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Pug Bainter wrote:

| Joe Morris (morris at unc.edu) said something that sounded like:
| > 4.  Rerun check_perms and it finds 11 problems all related to files that
| > are not set-gid.  Why did it return differently this time after I set the
| > owner of all files to mailman?!?

| Because for security purposes the OS removes the set-gid bit after a
| chown or chgrp.

So, I guess it's OK to leave root as the owner of the structure?

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