Re: User account for Majordomo?

[Derek E Mart <marticus @ ntr . net>]

* Wm. Josiah Erikson (josiah@bork.hampshire.edu) [990901 03:15]:
> I'm trying to run Majordomo 1.94.4 on a Redhat 6.0 486/33 (don't
> laugh... it works fine for email and web serving) : )
> I have installed it and everything works fine until I get to the wrapper
> config-test. It says that I've forgotten to use the proper GID and UID
> for Majordomo. When I go and look at my /etc/passwd file, there is no
> entry for majordomo at all. Am I supposed to create one? If so, what
> should the line look like? I'm using the GID of 2, since that's what
> daemon is, and the UID of 123, since it says that's the default. I've
> put in all the majordomo-related aliases in /etc/aliases, and run
> newaliases. Anything else I should do? Anything I'm missing? It's not
> clear to me, when reading the INSTALL file, if I'm supposed to manually
> create an account for majordomo. If I'm supposed to, it's not clear on
> how to do it, other than just using useradd or adduser, which would be
> silly, because obviously majordomo doesn't need a directory in /home .
>     Thanks much,
>     Josiah
> 

create group and user accounts named "mdom"  give ownership of the /var/lib/majordomo directories and files to mdom and chmod them with 755/644  make sure they are not
group writable.  Make sure you turn on the setuid bit on /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper
make sure you set up your aliases correctly and run newaliases and then send a lists
command to majordomo for it to create the config files.  echo 'lists' | mail 
majordomo Things should work for you if all is setup correctly.

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