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[John Bazik <address@concealed>]

I was trying out list families recently, and discovered that sympa
wants to write in /etc/sympa/families (or /home/sympa/etc/families,
as the docs say).  When I instantiate a family, sympa writes xml files
there.

Since that is a configuration directory, I set the permissions to
root-owned and read-only to sympa.  Since sympa must be run as user
sympa, and to make families work, I have to make that directory writable
by sympa.

That seems like a bad idea, security-wise.  Also, I set up my servers
as a failover pair, and do not share the /etc directory, since I
assumed it was read-only.  Wouldn't it make more sense to write those
files in expl?

I'm running 5.3.4, but I checked the latest (6.1b.4) release, and the
code in Family.pm is the same.

John