Bug#396537: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#396537: mailman: README.Exim4.Debian needs to mention groups

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi,

> After followign the instructions, I got a traceback when creating a
> list via the web interface which came down to 
> 
> admin(510): RuntimeError: command failed: chgrp Debian-exim
> /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman (status: 1, Operation not
> permitted)admin
> 
> The problem was the webserver user, www-data, doesn't have permissions
> to do that chgrp.

Thanks for reporting. I'm not a mailman user myself, so I'm not sure
whether your proposed solution

> +Debian-exim:x:105:www-data

has security implications. I will check that out. I've already added a
note to README.Exim4.Debian describing this potential problem but not
yet this specific solution.


Thijs
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