I never set a mailman password, and think that the effort of sharing passwords is unlikely to be worth the effort.
I'm not sure how to simplify WordPress logins, maybe only giving draft and comments access by default? OpenID helps as you can then just use a Google address or similar. Thanks, Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Feb 2013 18:00, "Chris Dennis" <cgden...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hello HantsLUGgers > > Here's an idea... > > Since membership of the LUG is defined as being subscribed to this mailing > list, it would make sense to link the list with WordPress's users. > > In other words, subscribers to this mailing list should be able to log in > to the WordPress site in order to add and edit content. > > Does that make sense? > > A quick search hasn't revealed any obvious ways of doing it, although > there is some discussion at http://mail.python.org/** > pipermail/mailman-users/2011-**June/071787.html<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-June/071787.html>There > is also a 'MailMan Widget' for WordPress that does the reverse: maybe > that's the way to go. > > Perhaps it would need a regular job to extract the current list of > subscribers from MailMan and use that to update the WordPress user list. > The first problem would be that MailMan just needs an email address, > whereas WordPress works in terms of usernames. > > And the other problem would be to find a way to share passwords between > the two systems securely. > > If anyone thinks that this is a) a good idea, and b) feasible, please let > me know. > > (But I'll be away until Thursday, so don't expect any immediate replies > from me.) > > cheers > > Chris > -- > Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com > Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/**mailman/listinfo/hampshire<https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire> > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > ------------------------------**------------------------------**-- >
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