The Doctor What wrote: > >Is there a way to have apache2 Auth* directives query username and >password from mailman? > >I was imagining something like: > ><Location /foo> > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Some service" > AuthMailManList FooList > require valid-user ></Location>
I doubt it is that simple, but I don't know very much about Apache. > but > mailman *has* all this code and the database of users is nearly > the same, if not the same. So why write duplicate code to > duplicate the data! The MailList object has an attribute 'passwords' which is a dictionary with member's e-mail address as key and plain text password as data, or given any membership database, the MemberAdaptor has a getMemberPassword(member) method which returns the password for member. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
