[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#365258: mailman (2.1.5-8sarge2): wrong config --with-mail-gid

[Oliver Rompcik]

Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:59:27PM +0200, Oliver Rompcik wrote:
>
>   
>> There's a wrong config option in debian/rules:
>> mailman is configured --with-mail-gid=daemon though it runs under gid 
>> list, therefore it should be configured --with-mail-gid=list
>>     
>
> And what horrible practical consequences does this "wrongness" have?
>
>   
Because the owner of the aliases.db is `list', Postfix will execute 
Mailman's wrapper program as uid and gid list.