Thanks for the reply - this confirms what I figured was the case (but you never know right?).
We plan to just have these users running the Mailman binaries and some other useful scripts we wrote which wrap around / combine functionality in the mailman binaries for common tasks.
Thanks - Ivan.
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, John Dennis wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:01 -0700, Ivan Fetch wrote:Hello,
We'd like to have multiple people manage our mailman installation via shell access, and are looking at adding their Unix accounts to the mailman group. This seems to work, but I wanted to verify that this doesn't cause any problems down the road.
We could have folks login as the mailman account, but it'd be nicer if they could use their own accounts.
Yes, and no. It depends on what they're doing, but in general I would suspect this will work fine as long as they stick to using the command line interface (CLI), e.g. whats in the bin directory. Here is the issue:
All of mailman's security is group based. As long as the user is just running commands and is in the group mailman you should be fine.
However, if they edit or create files on their own they will end up having themselves as the owner, and their primary group, which will not be mailman. *SOME* of these files have the potential to exhibit permission problems. So as long as they stick to the CLI and are not editing python files you should be fine, if they are creating/modifying files by using a text editor, you could end up with bad permissions. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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