[Mailman-Users] Mailman Installation Owner

Kory Wheatley wheakory at isu.edu
Wed Dec 14 21:15:06 CET 2005


Hi All,

I have a very critical question.  I installed "Mailman 2.1.6" under
a user account called "wheakory"  and this account needs to be removed
off of our system fast.  I would like to change ownership of the Mailman
installer owner to "mailacct" which is another account on our system. 
My group is the default group "mailman", server is "www".  If I just do
a find command :
(find /home/mailman -user wheakory -exec chown wheakory {} \;)
(find /home/mailman -group wheakory -exec chgrp wheakory {} \;)

Will this work, or is this account "wheakory" binded to the binary files
where this won't work?  If this doesn't work what are my options besides
a complete reinstall, because I have over 200 mailing lists in production.

Here's the configuration I used to install Mailman 2.16 logged in as the
"wheakory" user account.
./configure  --prefix=/home/mailman --with-python=/usr/bin/python
--with-mail-
gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=www


Here's my Mailman directory structure below.  (I'm using postfix with
Red Hat Enterprise 4, Mailman 2.1.6)
drwxrwsr-x    2 wheakory mailman    4096 Jul  8 22:30 icons
drwxrwsr-x  282 wheakory mailman   12288 Dec 12 17:09 lists
drwxrwsr-x    2 wheakory helpmail   4096 Dec 13 19:51 locks
drwxrwsr-x    2 wheakory mailman    4096 Dec 11 23:59 logs
drwxrwsr-x    2 wheakory mailman    4096 Jul  8 22:30 mail
drwxrwsr-x   11 wheakory mailman    4096 Oct 27 10:17 Mailman
drwxrwsr-x   31 wheakory mailman    4096 Jul  8 22:31 messages
drwxrwsr-x    2 wheakory mailman    4096 Mar 15  2004 spam
drwxrwsr-x   34 wheakory mailman    4096 Jul  8 22:30 templates
drwxrwsr-x    4 wheakory mailman    4096 Jul  8 22:31 tests



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