On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 14:03, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Hi all. I'm wondering if anybody has devised a way to authenticate to > the admin/moderator interfaces in Mailman using browser certificates. > We try to use them to authenticate to web services wherever possible, > and have a fairly widely deployed PKI at my site. > > It seems like this should be possible, but I really don't know python > and am not very familiar with Mailman's code. We use Apache and > mod_ssl, which means that we can make a bunch of environment variables > associated with the certificates available to Mailman. In particular, > we can find out the email address of the user. It seems like we should > be able to look for that email address in the list of admin or moderator > addresses and consider the user to be authenticated if it's there. The > web server is already doing the necessary work to verify that the > certificate is valid, so everything presented to Mailman should be > trustworthy. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > noah
Dude, Just move the script alias inside the ssl part of your httpd.conf. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
