Thanks! I checked out the link you sent, and have been talking with my colleagues about whether having list membership tied to LDAP groups would be of benefit to us.

What I'm most interested in is whether list administrators and moderators would be able to access their administrative interfaces with their LDAP username and password.

I'm not sure if this would work, though, because I think that since mailman asks only for a password (not a username) to get into the administrative interface, it must not know or care who you are as long as you give the right password.

Anne

Anne Anderson   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Application Developer / Database Manager
Information Technology
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, USA


Mark Sapiro wrote:
Anne Anderson wrote:

Can LDAP be used to authenticate logins for mailman?


Yes, but depending on what you actually want, there may be significant
implimentation effort involved. This is not an out-of-box or turn-key
installation.

The LDAP MemberAdaptor linked below has several limitations. Quoting
from the link below:

Mailman lists with LDAP-based membership can still have moderators,
list policies, and the other usual features of Mailman lists. There
are a few missing features; notably:

1. There is no bounce processing.
2. There are no per-user preferences.
3. The Web interface still allows you to try setting user preferences,
but if you do you will get a stack thrown at you. (Only the "readable"
interface of MemberAdaptor is implemented.)
4. The LDAP settings of a list (e.g. LDAP server and search string) are
only administrable by editing its "extend.py" file, not over the Web.
5. There is no digest mode.

See
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=871062&group_id=103&atid=300103>.


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