It is also very important that mailman was set up correctly when it was installed. During the ./configure phase, the cgi gid must be specified and it should match the gid that the web server runs as, especially if it runs as something other than the defaults. (Some web servers run as apache for instance.)

Here's a clip from the INSTALL file from mailman: 

       --with-cgi-gid=<group-or-groups>
            Specify an alternative group for running
            scripts via the CGI wrapper.  <group-or-groups>
            can be a list of one or more integer group ids 
            or symbolic group names.  The first value in 
            the list that resolves to an existing group is 
            used.  By default, the value is the the list 
            `www www-data nobody'.

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naChoZ

In reply to Re: suid perl by naChoZ
in thread suid perl by devslashneil

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