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| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/README.check_perms_grsecurity | 14 |
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diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3e475032 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/README @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +This directory contains unofficial contributed scripts and extensions +to Mailman. They are unsupported by the Mailman developers. If you +have questions or problems with them, please contact the contribution +author directly. diff --git a/contrib/README.check_perms_grsecurity b/contrib/README.check_perms_grsecurity new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6d1d0389 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/README.check_perms_grsecurity @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The check_perms_grsecurity.py script, if copied in your installed +~mailman/bin/ directory and run from there will modify permissions of +files so that Mailman with extra restrictions imposed by linux kernel security +patches like securelinux/openwall in 2.2.x or grsecurity in 2.4.x + +The way it works is that it makes sure that the UID of any script that +touches config.pck is `mailman'. What this means however is that +scripts in ~mailman/bin will now only work if run as user mailman or +root (the script then changes its UID and GID to mailman). +To make grsecurity happy, we remove the group writeable bit on a directories +that contain binaries. + +Enjoy +Marc MERLIN <marc_soft@merlins.org>/<marc_bts@vasoftware.com> - 2001/12/10 |