[Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Sat May 12 01:44:55 CEST 2012


Lindsay Haisley wrote:
>
>Actually, it's barely the same thing.  It appears that qrunner gets run
>as user 'list' out of the mailman init script, but all other Mailman
>components are owned by root, group list, albeit all the executables
>have group execute enabled.


So they're group 'list' and SETGID. Other than the name, how is that
different from group 'mailman' and SETGID?

The fact that they're owned by root is irrelevant. None assume any
identity from the owner when run.

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