Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:37:59 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, List_Mailman Org <mailman-users@python.org>, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Subject: Re: Mailman GID problem Message-ID: <A567BD5F24607058538EBAAC@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <200704201132.14391.david@vizion2000.net> References: <200704200842.48793.david@vizion2000.net> <CA436D2A-08D1-4CC9-B300-7FF4E7F929F0@goldmark.org> <200704201132.14391.david@vizion2000.net>
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--==========3602747CA1EFC76AD207========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Friday, April 20, 2007 11:32:13 -0700 David Southwell=20 <david@vizion2000.net> wrote: > On Friday 20 April 2007 09:38:03 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: >> On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:42 AM, David Southwell wrote: >> > Extract from /var/maillog >> > Apr 20 08:24:58 dns1 Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. >> > Mailman >> > expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", >> > but the >> > system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try >> > tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nobody", or re- >> > run >> > configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail- >> > gid=3Dmailman'. >> >> I've given a complementary response on the mailman-users list (to >> which I'm also cc'ing this) >> >> Nothing I say below takes away from what I said in that previous >> post. The answers to the questions I've asked would have resolved >> this problem long ago. >> >> There appears to be a bug in the pkg-install file that comes with the >> current mailman port. When one installs (through FreeBSD ports) >> mailman selecting postfix as the MTA, the MAIL_GID correctly gets set >> to "nobody" >> >> But in the pkg-install script all of the mailman files get set with >> >> echo "---> Creating Mailman directory (/usr/local/mailman)" >> (umask 002 && /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/mailman") || exit 1 >> /usr/sbin/chown -R "mailman:mailman" "/usr/local/mailman" || exit 1 >> /bin/chmod g+s "/usr/local/mailman" || exit 1 >> >> Which is correct for everything except for /usr/local/mailman/data >> which should actually be set with >> >> chown -R nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/data >> >> I don't know enough about ports to actually find the source pkg- >> install fine (the one I looked at and quoted from is after make has >> edited it with sed). So I'm not certain whether the problem is in >> the Makefile or in the source for the pkg-install. >> >> I experienced the same problem David had just a few weeks ago, but I >> attributed the problem (which I fixed by manually doing the chown) to >> me having moved my mailman set up from one machine to another. So I >> thought that I had the wrong permissions for /usr/local/mailman/data >> as a consequence of the move and not because the mailman FreeBSD port >> was broken. >> >> When I saw some of David's problems I started to have some >> suspicions, but I wasn't able to get enough information from him to >> really look at the ownerships the port set up. > > The problem is I was not able to actually rebuild the ports doing a > config. It seems once mailman has been installed once you cannot > get the config screne up and another make install leaves things exactly > as they were for the previous installation. The original installation > preferences are preserved - so I cannot tell you how the port created > the ownership orininally. In any port that has options (and therefore a config file), you can do the=20 following: Remove the config - make rmconfig Reset the config - make config Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========3602747CA1EFC76AD207==========--
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