Debian Bug report logs - #617248
mlmmj: Postfix information in README.Debian needs to say something about owner of mailing list files

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: mlmmj: Postfix information in README.Debian needs to say something about owner of mailing list files

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:20:34 +0000

Package: mlmmj
Version: 1.2.17-1
Severity: normal


As written, the information in README.Debian doesn't allow one to set
up a working mailing list with Postfix, because when a message is
received, postfix runs the delivery command, as given in /etc/aliases,
as user "nobody", but by default the mailing list (assuming it was
created by root) is owned by root.

The simplest fix (which I found confirmed here:

http://eclug.homelinux.org/content/view/265/59/

) is to chown -R nobody:nogroup /var/spool/mlmmj/list, but this
doesn't seem very sensible ("nobody" shouldn't really own files);
however, using "nobody" to run command in /etc/aliases is the default
setting for postfix, and it's sensible.

mlmmj's own README.postfix suggests using a different setup method to
get around this problem, namely, using an mlmmj user and a transport
map.

Would it not be better to suggest this method in README.Debian? It's a
little more complex, but a lot more secure than suddenly giving the
"nobody" user access to a mailing list.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers lucid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid-backports'), (500, 'lucid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mlmmj depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.28ubuntu4     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                  2.11.1-0ubuntu7.8 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  postfix [mail-transpor 2.7.0-1           High-performance mail transport ag

mlmmj recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mlmmj suggests:
pn  mlmmj-php-web                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  mlmmj-php-web-admin           <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded

Message #10 received at 617248-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>

To: 617248-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#617248: fixed in mlmmj 1.2.18.0-2

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:48:39 +0000

Source: mlmmj
Source-Version: 1.2.18.0-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mlmmj, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

mlmmj-php-web-admin_1.2.18.0-2_all.deb
  to main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj-php-web-admin_1.2.18.0-2_all.deb
mlmmj-php-web_1.2.18.0-2_all.deb
  to main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj-php-web_1.2.18.0-2_all.deb
mlmmj_1.2.18.0-2.debian.tar.gz
  to main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.18.0-2.debian.tar.gz
mlmmj_1.2.18.0-2.dsc
  to main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.18.0-2.dsc
mlmmj_1.2.18.0-2_amd64.deb
  to main/m/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.2.18.0-2_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 617248@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> (supplier of updated mlmmj package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:50:52 +0000
Source: mlmmj
Binary: mlmmj mlmmj-php-web mlmmj-php-web-admin
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 1.2.18.0-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: MLMMJ packaging team <pkg-mlmmj-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
Description: 
 mlmmj      - mail server independent mailing list manager
 mlmmj-php-web - web interface for mlmmj, written in php
 mlmmj-php-web-admin - administrative web interface for mlmmj, written in php
Closes: 617241 617248 677817 677819
Changes: 
 mlmmj (1.2.18.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fixes path to web files, now conf files are in /etc (Closes: #677817),
   thanks to Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> for reporting.
   * Fixed README.Debian as suggested by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
   (Closes: #617241).
   * Tells about nobody / nogroup rights in README.Debian (Closes: #617248),
   thanks to Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> for reporting.
   * Reference correctly install path in the README.Debian of the
   mlmmj-php-web-admin package thanks to Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us>
   for reporting (Closes: #677819).
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