[Mailman-Users] Is there a preferred owner and group of the MM2 directory "/usr/local/mailman?"

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue Sep 15 17:15:07 CEST 2015


On 09/15/2015 07:25 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> The installation instructions are a little confusing, but I take away
> from them the best (almost default) choice for owner:group for the
> "/usr/local/mailman" ($prefix) directory is 'mailman'.


The group must be 'mailman' (or whatever name you configured via the
--with-groupname option to configure). The owner is not critical. It is
usually also 'mailman' (or whatever name you configured via the
--with-username option to configure), but it really can be anything.

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