> On Jul 24, 2019, at 2:04 PM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > > On 7/24/19 10:44 AM, Robert Kudyba wrote: >> >> >> So no when trying to log in to the ~/mailman/admindb/mailman admin page I >> get the below error, notice it’s a different permission problem: >> >> Jul 24 13:41:51 2019 admin(5113): >> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >> admin(5113): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.29 -----] >> admin(5113): [----- Traceback ------] >> admin(5113): Traceback (most recent call last): >> admin(5113): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in run_main >> admin(5113): main() >> admin(5113): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 345, in >> main >> admin(5113): mlist.Save() >> admin(5113): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 613, in Save >> admin(5113): self.__save(dict) >> admin(5113): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 590, in >> __save >> admin(5113): os.link(fname, fname_last) >> admin(5113): OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted > > the admindb script is trying to save the list to do this, it first > creates a temporary config.pck.tmp.hhh.ppp file there hhh is the host > name and ppp is the PID of the process and writes the data to that. It > then unlinks (removes) config.pck.last, links config.pck to > config.pck.last and finally renames config.pck.tmp.hhh.ppp to config.pck. > > In your case it is the linking of config.pck to config.pck.last that is > failing. > > All these files should be group 'mailman' and group writable and the > process should be running with effective group 'mailman’.
By “these files” do you mean in /usr/lib/mailman? Those definitely did not have group write permissions. Do these files also need suid? > Did you see my reply about the file system needing to be mounted suid? Yes I did an responded in line with the permissions of the sub-directories and files: ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ total 264 -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 admin -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 admindb -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 confirm -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 create -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 edithtml -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 listinfo -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 options -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 private -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 rmlist -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23048 Feb 12 06:54 roster -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23056 Feb 12 06:54 subscribe ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/mail total 24 -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23176 Feb 12 06:54 mailman ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/mail/ total 24 -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23176 Feb 12 06:54 mailman ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 23176 Feb 12 06:54 /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
