freeBSD8.2: getgrgid() works only for wheel group.

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Rekhesh, good day.

Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 06:26:13PM +0530, Rekhesh Mohan wrote:
> I'm trying to install mailman on a freeBSD 8.2 box. Mailman allows only 
> the apache-www group to run its CGI scripts and only the mail group can 
> execute some of the mailing list related functionalities. Mailman is 
> using  getgrgid() to check the group name. This is failing on me.
> 
> It appears that only the wheel group members are allowed to use 
> getgrgid() on my machine. getgrgid() returns (null) for others. I was 
> wondering if anyone else has faced this situation. 

What's the output from 'ls -l /etc/group; ls -ld /etc'?
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