Hi Mark
Thank you for this - you have saved the day! :-) Cron job
run. Everyone now has their password. Phew.
I have done 3 to 5 (of your message) in the control panel, too.
Regards
Rachel
At 15:56 10/09/2008, Mark Sapiro wrote:
...
Once a person is a list member, you can't send
Our list welcome message was sent out to the members by the Secretary
yesterday but he sent it as an ordinary mailman@ message and it
didn't contain any password in it. We'll have to send another,
additional, message, just to get the passwords generated, but I will
have to give the Secretary
Rachel Mawhood wrote:
Our list welcome message was sent out to the members by the Secretary
yesterday but he sent it as an ordinary mailman@ message and it
didn't contain any password in it. We'll have to send another,
additional, message, just to get the passwords generated, but I will
have
We have set up Mailman as a closed, private list for an international
society. Members are subscribed by the Secretary, via the Admin
control panel. (Anyone who wants to join the list has to e-mail the
Secretary, and only the society members are eligible to be joined to the list.)
As far as
Rachel Mawhood wrote:
Obviously, we can't give 400-plus people the Admin or Moderator
passwords so that they can view the Archives. Is there a way of
having a third password, which we can give to the membership (and
reset from time to time), to enable members to view the Archives?
The admin
At 17:05 01/08/2008, Mark Sapiro wrote:
In your subscription scenario, the password is randomly generated. It
will be mailed to the member in the list welcome message, and unless
disabled by the list or the user, the user will receive a monthly
email reminder.
Excellent - thank you!
Regards
Does mailman have restrictions for passwords. Like a number or cap needs
in the passwords. I am not finding anything on that. I know in my
experience it just lets me put in anything for a password, wether it be for
owner or user?
Melinda Gilmore
Systems Engineer
The Ohio State University
Melinda Gilmore wrote:
Does mailman have restrictions for passwords. Like a number or cap needs
in the passwords.
No.
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I'm administering a group of lists and have monthly reminders set, and the
reminder is being sent out on time and such, however, when I receive my copy of
the password reminder, the passwords listed are incorrect, and it's almost like
they're encrypted or something.
For an example, assume the
Bob Holden wrote:
For an example, assume the password is password, which works fine in the
system. When the reminder arrives, it shows the password as dkhbkesd, or
something like that.
I suspect that what you are seeing in this example is your original,
randomly generated, member password in
Hi,
I'm new to this list, so I apologize if my question appeared soon
before, but I didn't see it in the archives.
Is there a way to configure Mailman to require a
password for posting?
thanks
Jaskaran Singh
University Systems Security
Fairleigh Dickinson University
1000 River Road, Mail Stop
David,
David Hunt wrote:
The company that hosts my website is running Mailman 2.1.2 (recently
upgraded), and although they do fine for normal questions, I don't really
think they're Mailman experts. As for myself, I already know the options
available in Mailman's web interface and understand
Greetings,
I've not been able to find the info, but I know its out there ... How can I send
members
their password if they forget what it is?
Or how can they get their passwrod if they for get it?
Thanks take care,
Nyx Wolfwalker
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On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:19, Nyx Wolfwlaker wrote:
Greetings,
I've not been able to find the info, but I know its out there ... How can I send
members
their password if they forget what it is?
Or how can they get their passwrod if they for get it?
Thanks take care,
Nyx
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003, at 09:19 PM, Nyx Wolfwlaker wrote:
Greetings,
I've not been able to find the info, but I know its out there ... How
can I send members
their password if they forget what it is?
Or how can they get their passwrod if they for get it?
They can get the system to send
Dear All,
I'm trying to run a simple mailing list so that people can sign up to
receive news related to my career as a musician. I would like it to be
simple enough that my grandmother could sign up for it if she wanted to.
Right now, it is a mess - the very first person who signed up, who
You do not say what version of Mailman you are running.
Were you to be running MM 2.1.2 you would find the following list
configuration options, which if set as indicated would lead to a user
being subscribed without having to respond to or indeed receive any
emails except the subsequent
--On Monday, July 14, 2003 19:41:37 -0500 Mike Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
A question...
I added a dozen folks to one of my lists using the admin bulk
subscription. What password is assigned to these folks?
random characters.
Mike W
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On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:18, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
Replace the password reminder email with a simple confirmation
email. If you want to keep user options hidden then replace the
Password Reminder button with a Email me my options page URL button,
which emails the user a URL with an
Derek Simkowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think mailing list passwords are The Worst Thing Ever.
Here is what I'd like to see:
Everyone who uses Mailman's web-based interface (at a particular
virtual host) would get a choice of two authentication methods:
* authentication via password
Hello,
I think mailing list passwords are The Worst Thing Ever.
Is there an option to disable them completely within Mailman? I'd like
all user options to be confirmed via a confirmation email. Googling
only gave me old or incomplete information.
If this is not possible, I am
Hi All...
I'm new to using Mailman on my websites, so I have a lot of questions.
I set the option for sending monthly password reminders, thinking this sound like a
good idea. Then the reminder arrived last night and lo and behold it had a different
password.
What's up with this? Seems
But, the python commands you want me to try DO work (and mailman still yields
the same errors from my previous e-mail):
# python -V
Python 2.2.2
# python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Jan 9 2003, 16:24:27)
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on sunos5
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more
Steve,
You're first problem looks like a classic permission denied
problem. I'd suggest running bin/check_perms to see if that clears up
your problems.
The second issue you had (no module name time) looks like your
Python installation is broken. You should be able to do something
like the
Is there any way to set up a list so that there are no passwords
required for unsubscribe. Even better if the only password would be for
the admin(s).
I need this so that someone who wants to unsubscribe can do so with a
mailto link with unsubscribe filled in the subject field.
Thanks
Jeff
Quoting Jeff Poretsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there any way to set up a list so that there are no passwords
required for unsubscribe. Even better if the only password would be for
the admin(s).
I need this so that someone who wants to unsubscribe can do so with a
mailto link with unsubscribe
SR == Steve Rifkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SR OK, I upgraded to MM2.1. After having to run check_perms with
SR -f to fix permissions, I finally got the web pages up.
SR When I go in as site admin and change the list admin's
SR password for a list, I *still* cannot log in as
I recently installed mailman 2.1 (upgrading over our mailman 2.13) to correct a
problem with list admin passwords.
At the time of the upgrade, I was running python 2.1
Today I finally ran genaliases to modify the old mm list aliases for the new
mailman.
With the aliases in place, I sent
A better solution would be to upgrade to MM2.1. It uses sha1 hashing,
which will always be available.
OK, I upgraded to MM2.1. After having to run check_perms with -f to fix
permissions, I finally got the web pages up.
When I go in as site admin and change the list admin's password for a
What are you using for Password authentication on your system? Are you
using PAMs? What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like (are you
using NIS)?
NIS is used, but the mailman user account info is local to the web server.
Mailman's home directory, though, is shared between the web
Just did another reinstall of 2.0.13. Again, installed with no problems.
Check_perm ran fine... again
And, the list ownerships for the config.db file for my test list is:
-rw-rw 1 mailman mailman 3169 Jan 03 11:57 config.db
(owned and group-owned by mailman)
Then, I log into the
The ownership issue is a red-herring. As long as it's group owned by
mailman and it's g+rw you should be fine.
I'm guessing somewhere along the way Python got upgraded and the
status of the crypt libraries changed (either they were there before
and not now, or vice versa). Try setting
a dumpdb again. I get the same encrypted password for the
list
admin (and therefore, still cannot log in as the admin).
What else can I try?
Thanks!
Steve
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Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords of members
From: Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve
The other interesting thing I found is that once I log into a list as the SITE
ADMIN, if I go to change the list admin's password, I can put anything into:
Enter new password:
Then, I can put something different into:
Confirm new password:
I can then proceed to click Submit Your Changes,
Going an extra step, I compiled python 2.2.2 and put it in place.
I then rebuilt mailman (based on the new python). Again, mailman works EXCEPT
FOR list admin passwords.
I'm running out of options. I'm now at python 2.2.2 and mailman 2.0.13, and my
list admins cannot log in, but the site
Oh, I should also add that, as user mailman, when I run:
bin/check_perms
I get:
No problems found
Steve
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Mailman FAQ:
Catching up on a few of your messages...
I'm betting that your Web-server runs as user nobody, so changes via the
web to the list config may end-up as being owned by nobody.
Shouldn't you have the sticky bit set for the group on all those
directories and files (if the check came back okay then
cannot log in as the admin).
What else can I try?
Thanks!
Steve
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Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords of members
From: Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Rifkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Mailman users Mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
in as the admin).
What else can I try?
Thanks!
Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Passwords of members
From: Jon Carnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Steve Rifkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Mailman users Mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: 14 Dec 2002 20:36:07
Now that we can see the plain-text passwords of members using dumpdb on the
config.db file, how can we see the specific list admin password for a given
list? I could see plaintext passwords for the users, but for what looked like
the admin, I saw something very different than what the password
In this version of Mailman the admin password for the list is encrypted,
well sort of... If you want to be clever and look at the source you can
easily figure this part out.
In any case, I've seen this problem before after an upgrade and it seems
to be that the encryption has changed. Normally
Hi.
How do I find out the passwords of subscribers with out clicking on the 'send me my password button'?
Thanks,
Gary SmithMSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE*
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The archives have a script for this (for versions 2.0.x), and you can
easily modify the script found here to do it (you will have to be system
admin):
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.007.htp
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:25, Gary Smith wrote:
Hi.
How do I find out the
I am new to this list, and somewhat new to mailman. I fellow employee at
my company who did our MailMan administration has left, and not filtered
down enough information for me. I need to know how to change the ``site''
password from what it is now, to something diffrent.
Thanks
-Rory Savage
Thanks, I was able to get this working.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Ignacio Labrador Pavon wrote:
You can change your site password using:
/bin/mmsitepass your-site-password
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am new to this list, and somewhat new to mailman. I fellow employee at
my company who
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