On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:58:05AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote:
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> Good Morning,
>
> With the group write permissions on the directory, it's a little less
> secure and I would like to get rid of that. Are there any issues with
> getting rid of it?
Yes, as soon as root or some other privileged user runs a mailman command,
config.db will be owned by a user other than mailman, and your list will
stop working.
While it is designed to fix a different issue, if you use the securelinux
fix in contrib (see your source tree), it should allow you to remove group
writeable permissions on dirs.
Marc
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