I posted this to the users group, and they suggested I post it here; I've looked into what might need to be done, and it looks like it will be a lot easier for list members than for list administrators; since list members have 'usernames' (their e-mail address), but list administrators just have their password?
Is there a best place to apply such a patch? At our University, we use a special username/password (called a "UNet" account) for all web-related items. We can match the UNet username directly to the user's University e-mail address. I would like to use this username/password for all list members and list owners who have a UNet account, but fall through to the mailman-generated password for those who do not. We do not have access to the actual password--it is stored only as a Unix hash so we can't simply insert it into the mailman password database (and we wouldn't want to send it out via e-mail on a monthly basis in any case). Has anyone else implemented something like this? What I'm looking at as a possibility is setting up an Apache .htaccess file so that all of the mailman directories are password protected, but allow guest access (Apache has a special module that will do this). If a user logs in using their UNet account, map it to their e-mail address and bypass mailman's login process. If the user logs in as a guest, do not bypass mailman's login process. Has anyone already done this? If so, are there already any instructions somewhere for how to do this? Any foreseeable problems with this method? Jerry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ -- The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the government�s power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
