https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662433
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662433#c2
--- Comment #2 from Erik Brakkee 2011-01-06 12:40:32 UTC ---
My mailman installation is an old one, basically started with opensuse 10.1 32
bit and then upgraded it in several steps through to 11.3 64 bit.
As for the requested info:
/etc/passwd:
mailman:x:72:67:GNU mailing list manager:/var/lib/mailman:/bin/bash
/etc/cron.allow:
mythtv
mailman
/etc/cron.deny:
guest
gast
I also looked at a maiden install of opensuse 11.3 64 bit on a virtual machine
and that one has identical configuration, accept for the /etc/cron.allow which
is missing.
Note that /etc/cron.allow was being ignored before I modified the PAM config.
There is one notable difference however which is that when I go in to
Yast2/Security and Users and set Filter to "system users", it shows that
mailman has login enabled on the maiden install but has it disabled on the
machine that is giving the problem.
I think disabling login for the mailman account is a better setting anyway. I
don't know if this was done by an older SuSE install or whether I disabled the
login myself. But in any case disabling user logins is one of the most
elementary security measures.
PS. mythtv is in the /etc/cron.allow for a similar reason (see the mail thread
at
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/4522...)
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