Mailman file ownership problems

[Bob Proulx]

Hello Sysadmin,

Francisco Vila CC'd has reported a permission problem due to ownership
when trying to edit the html for the lilypond-es mailing list.

The problem seems to be an ownership problem on lists.

  lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 list list 4513 2010-01-01 20:38 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html

In order to write it from the web it needs to be user www-data.  For
example here is a working listing.

  lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data list 4181 2017-11-03 14:55 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html

The full details are forwarded below.

Could you repair the ownership of that list?  It probably needs more
than just that one file changed.  Please double check the directory
against a known good list and fix the set of whatever ownership needs
to be adjusted.

And then please check the entire collection of mailing lists to catch
any others that are also like this?

Thanks!
Bob

----- Forwarded message from Francisco Vila <address@hidden> -----

Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:56:40 +0100
From: Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: [savannah-help-public] Mailman bug after editing HTML

Hello,

I am the maintainer of a list in lists.gnu.org. I'd like to contact the
webmaster of lists.gnu.org because I reach an error page after trying to
edit some code in the presentation page.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/edithtml/lilypond-es/listinfo.html

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.21

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Please forgive me if this is not the right place to contact the webmaster.

Cheers,
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
paconet.org , csmbadajoz.com


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----- Forwarded message from Bob Proulx <address@hidden> -----

Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 13:08:23 -0600
From: Bob Proulx <address@hidden>
To: Francisco Vila <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [savannah-help-public] Mailman bug after editing HTML

Hello Francisco,

Francisco Vila wrote:
> I am the maintainer of a list in lists.gnu.org. I'd like to contact the
> webmaster of lists.gnu.org because I reach an error page after trying to
> edit some code in the presentation page.

The problem seems to be an ownership problem on lists.

  lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 list list 4513 2010-01-01 20:38 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/lilypond-es/es/listinfo.html

In order to write it from the web it needs to be user www-data.  For
example here is a working listing.

  lists:/var/log/mailman$ ll /var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html
  -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data list 4181 2017-11-03 14:55 
/var/lib/mailman/lists/coreutils/en/listinfo.html

I will forward this problem to the FSF admins for fixing.  I can only
look.  I lack sufficient permission to chown there.

> Please forgive me if this is not the right place to contact the webmaster.

Generally for webmaster things it is better to mail them directly
using the webmaster address.  The savannah-hackers are the volunteers
who take care of Savannah.  Savannah is the software forge
infrastructure available for use by GNU Projects.  The mailing lists
are yet again a separate and unrelated infrastructure service.  A
couple of us do volunteer in several different areas though so I will
go ahead and answer here.  This problem you are reporting is a Mailman
problem and so probably sending to address@hidden would have been the
best address to report this problem.  Also Ian is one of the FSF
admins and is now subscribed to that address and helps out there.  But
no matter now.  I will go ahead and forward it and it will get fixed.
Thanks for reporting the problem.

Bob


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