Hi, I'm a little confused about something regarding setting up Mailman to run using Sendmail. The following are instructions for how to create the mailman user. My first question is, why is the user created with no shell and no home? The documentation does not explain the reason why this is needed. % groupadd mailman % useradd -c''GNU Mailman'' -s /no/shell -d /no/home -g mailman mailman Second, in Ed Greenbergs workaround for integrating with Sendmail without mm-handler (I am doing this b/c I need to run with both maillists and individual users), the following instructions are given. 5. As mailman, run /home/mailman/bin/genaliases Check for a file /home/mailman/data/aliases and also TWO files /etc/mailman.aliases and /etc/mailman.aliases.db
6. Test creating a list using /home/mailman/bin/newlist Check for the appearance of aliases for that list in /etc/mailman.aliases Add some users and test the list First, I don't see how to login or sudo as mailman if the user is set up without a shell. Second, both steps refer to a home directory that does not exist if the user is set up with no home. In other words, the instructions seem to contradict the basic instruction for how to set up the mailman user. Please help me better understand what is needed here. Thanks, Bill ------------------------------------------------------ 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
