On May 26, 2008, at 1:59 AM, Laura Creighton wrote:
So what people _want_ is a way to log in with a password and then have
mailman recognise them and make it possible for them to administer all
the lists they run.
I agree. And I look forward to something like this in Mailman 3, but
for the time being I am going to preach:
<Rant>
Every system administrator or knowledgeable person should be trying to
persuade people to use good password management systems so that they
don't have to remember most passwords. For Windows, I recommend
Password Safe and for OS X, I recommend 1Password. Users of other
systems are probably already using password management systems.
pwsafe will maintain compatible databases with Password Safe.
So, I would take the current poor situation with mailman's failure to
distinguish between authorization and authentication as an opportunity
to educate people about password management systems.
</Rant>
Cheers,
-j
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