[Mailman-Users] Is there a security hole in Mailman?

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Mon Feb 13 22:01:33 CET 2006


Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>Side question:  If the webserver is running as a user/group that can't 
>directly access the Mailman installation, how can Mailman web interfaces 
>work?  Perhaps you mean something else by the above?


The web interface accesses Mailman through setgid wrappers. See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.016.htp>.

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