I'm currently working on a college project to migrate mailman data to
ldap. Authentication is very easily done - it's 5/6 lines afair. I
used the python-ldap module to integrate the ldap routines.
Let me know if you want a look at the code...
Donal
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> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Using alternate password repository?
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 22:05:39 -0400
> From: Tom Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I am maintaining several mailing lists associated with an organization
> that includes password-protected access to certain areas of its
> website. I do not like the idea of having separate passwords for
> mailing list preferences access and website access.
>
> Ideally both the http server and Mailman would share authentication
> information. This can be accomplished by either writing an Apache
> authentication module that makes use of the Mailman information (but
> which if the user belongs to multiple lists?) or Mailman authenticates
> against another mechanism that is used by the server, such as a MySQL
> table.
>
> My questions, then, are these:
>
> 1) Has anyone else handled this?
>
> 2) If so, how?
>
> 3) If not, what would the Mailman intelligencia recommend?
>
> I have not spent a lot of time reading the Mailman code, but it would
> seem that it would be relatively straightforward to write a
> replacement to SecurityManager.py that authenticates against something
> other than the marshalled dictionary.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -tree
>
> --
> Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp.
> Sr. Sinostringologist http://www.basistech.com
> "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"
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