Bug 251187
Summary: | Fedora 7's mailman and httpd binaries cannot work together | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Stephen Winnall <steve> |
Component: | mailman | Assignee: | Tomas Smetana <tsmetana> |
Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 7 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-08-23 06:14:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Stephen Winnall
2007-08-07 17:04:00 UTC
I probably don't understand what do you mean by "cannot work together". They obviously do. Or do you want to run Mailman in a virtual host using SuExec? This is the thing that is not solved too well even in the upstream Mailman AFAIK, and requires Mailman to be installed somewhere under suexec_docroot. I really don't understand what you expect me to do. Sorry, I was not precise enough. Yes, I was trying to run Mailman in a virtual host using suexec. I haven't tried any other variant because it wouldn't fit my needs. I need to store my mail archives privately. I'm not sure if this is a Mailman or an Apache HTTPD issue. I tried using Mailman and Apache straight out of the box, and everything worked except web access to (private) mail archives. Running "check_perms -f" didn't help. Access to public archives (which I can't use) worked OK. I therefore assumed that I had to use suexec. I got quite a long way down the line, but failed in the end because of the reasons given in the original posting. I put all of /var/lib/mailman and also /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin under suexec_docroot (/var/www) and created a soft link from /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin to /var/www/mailman/cgi-bin. This put me into the situation where Mailman was expecting its wrappers to be run in group apache (GID 48). But suexec will only accept groups >= 100. I tried making group apache = 101 system-wide, but then suexec didn't work. It seems to me that there are two possible ways of solving this: 1) the user apache and group apache need to be given values >= 500 and >= 100 respectively; OR 2) Mailman needs to be compiled with a different user/group (>=500, >=100) for its wrappers (but then suexec would have to be built with these too). Obviously, I could download the source and hack this myself; but I'd like to be able to get updates with the minimum effort. I hope this is a bit clearer: let me know if you need any more information. I think UIDs >= 500 were reserved for "ordinary" user accounts not for services (therefore the hardcoded values in suexec) and any of the suggested changes might be considered a security issue... I'm really not sure how to help you. I've solved this issue for myself by not using Mailman any more, so I suggest we close the issue. Steve |