[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#360905: web-frontend: mailman-cgis can not be used with apache-suexec

[Roger Lynn]

On 05/04/2006 13:43, Fionn Behrens wrote:
> When installing mailman mit apache and suexec, mailman can not be used:
> The Mailman CGIs insist on being group "www-data", otherwise they wont
> execute. Unfortunately though, on debian the group "www-data" has gid 33
> and suexec forbids execution of CGIs with gid < 50.

Actually the Debian Mailman cgi wrapper only checks that the group is
www-data if the gid is >= 100 or != 65534. See
http://bugs.debian.org/303342#msg44 for an explanation. Executing with a gid
of 50-99 or 65534 should work (although I haven't tested this and I'm not
familiar with suexec).

Roger