[Mailman-Users] Mailman Installation Owner

[Carl Zwanzig]

In a flurry of recycled electrons, Kory Wheatley wrote:

> 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 {} \;)

2dn wheakory -> mailman on both of those.
(or just chown -R mailman:mailman /home/mailman)

> 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

That should get the files, but the wrapper code will still want to 
use wheakory. You will have to rebuild that, but a "reinstall" 
isn't necessary. I'm sure there's something in the FAQ abou this.

BTW, I'd recommend using user/group "mailman" as it's the canonical
uid/gid.

z!