[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman without root privileges?

[Jon Carnes]

No.  You need root.

You can get by without root to simply install the files/applications (in
your home area - the apps would run as you instead of the user "mailman"),
but you need to have root access to modify the system's mail aliases file so
that mail actually makes it to your lists - and to modify the webserver's
config file so that the Mailman CGI area is setup properly.

Jon Carnes

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred B [mailto:fredb86 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 2:38 PM
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman without root privileges?



I have an account on a hosting service that
runs FreeBSD and Qmail. They do not have Mailman
installed.  However, they do have Apache and Python
installed. I can also compile sources using GNU C.

The Mailman installation directions suggest that I need root
privileges for some initial setup, but I'm just wondering
if it's possible to do it without root privileges since
I'm just using it with my account.

Thanks!

FB

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