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Re: mailman permissions weirdness.



* nate (debian-user@aphroland.org) [030219 09:18]:
> martin f krafft said:
> 
> > what difference do the permissions make, then?
> 
> sounds like the mailman cgi interface may be calling a binary
> that is setgid list in order to function.

Yep, you're exactly right.  IIRC, all of the CGI binaries in
/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin are 2755 root:list.

good times,
Vineet
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