Re: [Lurker-users] Problem in lurker-prune: utime used to touch file not owned by caller.

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Kaz Kylheku <ka...@ky...> wrote:

> On 29.09.2013 14:06, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> > This code is hostile to installations which use two user accounts for
> > the archiving operation.
>
> By the way, I realize that a workaround is to simply run this operation
> as the web-side user, like "www-data".  The web data document root
> should only ever be written by this user, and never by the mailing
> list user account like "list".
>

That's not a workaround, that's the intended use of lurker.
lurker-index creates the database.
lurker-prune and lurker.cgi  maintain the web cache.
lurker.docroot is part of the web cache.

The only cross-user script is the web-based delete function.
That already needs a password to switch accounts.