Directory permissions for majordomo

Gene Bomgardner listmail at brightstar.ath.cx
Wed Jun 25 09:56:25 PDT 2003


I've installed Majordomo from the ports and it runs using sendmail. I got an
error message saying that resend couldn't write in
/usr/local/majordomo/lists because it was 'wold writable'. When I restrict
write privileges then I get 'permission denied' when it tries to create a
temporary lock file in lists. the current directories look like this:

total 280
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 10:27 Log
drwxr-xr-x  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 Tools
-r--r--r--  1 root      wheel      4539 Jun 25 09:05 aliases.majordomo
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      majordom     11 Jun 25 09:05 archive -> archive2.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   5512 Jun 25 09:05 archive2.pl
drwxr-xr-x  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 bin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   3039 Jun 25 09:05 bounce-remind
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  10867 Jun 25 09:05 config-test
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  51130 Jun 25 09:05 config_parse.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  14516 Jun 25 09:05 digest
drwxrwxr-x  3 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 digests
drwxrwxr-x  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 doc
drwxr--r--  4 majordom  majordom   1024 Jun 25 10:57 lists
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  62498 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo
-rw-r--r--  1 majordom  majordom  10497 Jun 25 09:11 majordomo.cf
-rw-r--r--  1 root      majordom  10509 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo.cf~
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  24381 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom    137 Jun 25 09:05 majordomo_version.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   4036 Jun 25 09:05 request-answer
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom  30164 Jun 25 09:05 resend
-rw-r--r--  1 majordom  majordom  10398 Jun 25 09:05 sample.cf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 majordom  majordom   8060 Jun 25 09:05 shlock.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 root      majordom      0 Jun 25 11:21 t.txt
drwx------  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 10:57 tmp
-r-sr-x---  1 majordom  majordom   7326 Jun 25 09:05 wrapper

./lists
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom    379 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom  16546 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort.config
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort.info
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 09:16 alpha-cohort~
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom     52 Jun 25 09:16 otgroup
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom  16515 Jun 25 09:16 otgroup.config
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom     77 Jun 25 09:16 otgroup.info
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 09:16 t.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom    534 Jun 25 09:16 t2.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom  65536 Jun 25 09:16 t2.txt~
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom     71 Jun 25 09:16 test
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 09:05 test-l
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest
drw-rw-r--  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest.archive
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      majordom     11 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest.info -> test-l.info
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root      majordom     13 Jun 25 09:05 test-l-digest.passwd -> test-l.passwd
drw-rw-r--  2 majordom  majordom    512 Jun 25 09:05 test-l.archive
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom    124 Jun 25 09:05 test-l.info
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      5 Jun 25 09:05 test-l.passwd
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom  16482 Jun 25 09:16 test.config
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom      0 Jun 25 09:16 test.info
-rw-rw-r--  1 majordom  majordom     73 Jun 25 09:16 test~

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Does anyone who is using majordomo see any problems with permissions?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Gene


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