[Mailman-Users] mailman stopped working after upgrade

[John Dennis]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:05 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>   # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid
>   # switch to Mailman's configure script.
>   # Value is normally "mailman"
>   MM_UID=mailman
>   MM_GID=mailman
>   #
>   # Domains that your lists are in - colon separated list
>   # you may wish to add these into local_domains as well
>   domainlist
> mm_domains=daevid.com:rollinballzcrew.com:me-racing.com:marq.org
>   #
>   # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>   #
>   # These values are derived from the ones above and should not need
>   # editing unless you have munged your mailman installation
>   #
>   # The path of the Mailman mail wrapper script
>   MM_WRAP=MM_HOME/mail/mailman

Caveat: I don't know exim! But the above does suggest to me that when it
invokes MM_WRAP=MM_HOME/mail/mailman will do it as uid=mailman,
gid=mailman (because it calls setgid(mailman), is exim running with root
privileges? it can't change the group if its not). BUT the mailman
wrapper is telling you that is not what is happening, its being executed
as group mail.

> 
> ######################################################################
> #                    MAIN CONFIGURATION SETTINGS                     #
> ######################################################################
> 
> exim_user = mail

hmm... very suspicious, looks like this is what is being picked up as
the execution context.


-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>