On Mi, 2006-04-05 at 14:51 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > On 05/04/2006 13:43, Fionn Behrens wrote: > > When installing mailman mit apache and suexec, mailman can not be used: > > The Mailman CGIs insist on being group "www-data", otherwise they wont > > execute. Unfortunately though, on debian the group "www-data" has gid 33 > > and suexec forbids execution of CGIs with gid < 50. > > Actually the Debian Mailman cgi wrapper only checks that the group is > www-data if the gid is >= 100 or != 65534. See > http://bugs.debian.org/303342#msg44 for an explanation. Executing with a gid > of 50-99 or 65534 should work (although I haven't tested this and I'm not > familiar with suexec).
If that is the case, a clearly visible warning in README.Debian or even at installation (if suexec is detected) should be issued to the user, otherwise it can become pretty confusing. JFYI, I ended up patching the username in to all CGIs with a hex editor (fortunately it was a shorter string than "www-data"...). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
