freeBSD8.2: getgrgid() works only for wheel group.

[Rekhesh Mohan]

On 04/08/2011 Eygene wrote
> Rekhesh, good day.
> 
> Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 06:26:13PM +0530, Rekhesh Mohan wrote:
> > I'm trying to install mailman on a freeBSD 8.2 box. Mailman allows
> > only the apache-www group to run its CGI scripts and only the mail
> > group can execute some of the mailing list related
> > functionalities. Mailman is using  getgrgid() to check the group
> > name. This is failing on me.
> > 
> > It appears that only the wheel group members are allowed to use
> > getgrgid() on my machine. getgrgid() returns (null) for others. I
> > was wondering if anyone else has faced this situation.
> 
> What's the output from 'ls -l /etc/group; ls -ld /etc'?


Eygene! You are the man :)

/etc had 750 permissions. Thanks a lot. I was probably too busy looking 
inside /etc and never thought of looking up above the directory. 
Everything is working now.

Thanks again.. 

--R