> I am trying to create a list, but I am running into permission problems: > > admin(8194): os.mkdir(self.archive_dir()+'.mbox', 02775) > admin(8194): OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: > '/usr/local/mailman/archives /private/49ers.mbox' > > I ran the check_perms script and it did not find any errors. > > What are the permissions supposed to be for this? What needs to be done > to get this to create the directories itself?
If you are running FC3 or RHEL4 there is a known bug in the SELinux security policy. These OS's introduced SELinux a much more secure protection mechanism that goes far beyond traditional UNIX permissions. It monitors everything and decides based on rules if an operation is to be permitted. These rules are called the security policy. In FC3 and RHEL4 SELinux was enabled by default for a tartgeted set of systems services, especially services connected via the network. Mailman was one of the services that was put under the control of SELinux, along with apache, the MTA's etc. If an operation violates the security policy it appears to a traditional application as a permissions problem, but the traditional permissions may be just fine. When this happens its logged in /var/log/messages with line containing something like "avc access denied". There is a known bug in the SELinux policy for FC3 (RHEL4?) that trips up mailman's ability to create a new list from the web interface. This is not a mailman bug. Running check_perms -f will not fix this because the permissions are fine, its the security policy. The bug has been fixed in selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.80. If you upgrade to this version or later of the selinux-policy-targeted the problem should go away. Or you can disable SELinux by running the system-config-securitylevel applet. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
