[Mailman-Users] More permission problems

[Todd]

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Jon Carnes wrote:
> Remember to run /usr/local/mailman/bin/genaliases to create the initial
> aliases and aliases.db file.  Also note that you will need to modify the
> default rights on these two files if you want the automation to work
> properly with the web-based creation cgi.  I can't remember the exact
> rights screen - I think you have to either "chmod o+w aliases.db" or you
> have to set the owner of the aliases.db file to the webserver owner
> (apache) and make sure the owner has write writes.

Just for clarification to the OP (I know you don't need any help Jon :), you
should end up with perms like this (in ~mailman/data):

    $ ls -l aliases*
    -rw-rw----    1 mailman  mailman      5.6k Mar 13 14:03 aliases
    -rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman       12k Mar 13 14:03 aliases.db

I created a FAQ entry a little while back about this, since it comes up so
often and because check_perms won't catch the problem of aliases.db being
owned by someone other than mailman -- which it probably should, since that
breaks list creation via the web when using Postfix.

    http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.009.htp

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