Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53641
mailman code in /var requires setgid
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: If you make /var mount nosuid, mailman's web front end doesn't work. Making /var nosuid is a fairly reasonable thing, in my book. The error messages from this are really cryptic and can take a while to decipher. I know I deserve to lose in this situation. The enhancement request I have would be: could you get the developers to consider this case and make a smarter error message if it can't succeed in the setgid, especially in the 'check_perms' executable, OR, could you the packager install the binaries in some place other than /var? No pressure, and thanks for your time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. edit /etc/fstab and add 'nosuid' to /var 2. mount -o remount /var 3. Try to use mailman's web interface. Actual Results: A fatal 'permission denied' error drops into mailman's VirtualHost's error log. Expected Results: I'd've expected the error to complain more about "can't setgid to MAILMAN_GID" than that it can't write to /var/mailman/logs/error. Additional info:
For a nosuid /var you probably want to move /var/mailman onto another partition and symlink it to /var/mailman. Bad error messages are a problem, but also not really a bug in the current package. Closing this to upstream development. greetings, Florian La Roche