Do what I did for v2.0.8. After installing mailman do a chmod g-w ~mailman
AFAIK nothing writes to the top level mailman directory after the installation. All writing is done to subdirectories. I hope this is still true in 2.1. On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:56:08PM -0500, jsingh wrote: > I have looked through sendmail for the 'DontBlameSendmail' issue but I > don't want to give up on security to fix this problem. > I checked my permissions and everything is just according to the mailman > documentation. How can I take care of this problem without having to > compromise security ? > Thanks > jack > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Group Writable > > The setting is in your sendmail.cf file. It's something like > "DontBlameSendmail". You can find details at: > http://www.sendmail.org > > Good Luck - Jon Carnes (from the road) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jsingh <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:10 PM > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Group Writable > > I keep getting this re occurring error can anyone tell me ,how to get > rid of this > > Nov 26 17:04:02 dragon sendmail[31575]: gAQM42AN032413: forward > /home/mailman/.forward: World writable directory > Nov 26 17:05:02 dragon sendmail[9465]: gAQM52AN007811: forward > /home/mailman/.forward.dragon: World writable directory > > thanks > > Jaskaran Singh > University Systems & Security > Fairleigh Dickinson University > Teaneck, NJ 07666 > > > _____ > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
