On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Derek E Mart wrote:
> * 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.
>
>
Derek missed one important step: After creating the mdom user and group,
you must code the UID/GID of these into the makefile and re-compile
wrapper. You may also have to declare mdom as a 'trusted user' in your
sendmail.cf
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Rick Green
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