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Today's Topics:
1. Link Administration (Stephen Loosley)
2. Re: Link Administration (Ivan Trundle)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:34:46 +1030
From: Stephen Loosley <[email protected]>
To: "link" <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] Link Administration
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Ah, thanks David ..
All we used was the Admin login and password here
But now the only password I was given doesn't work?
https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
On Monday, 16 March 2026 13:32:03 AEDT Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Anyone know about this, and/or what can be done?
What is the name / version of the package? Could an ANU system administrator
with access to the 'root' account help? I assume it's still hosted on an ANU
system with passwords for both Moderator & ordinary users held on a RADIUS or
similar database.
_DavidL_
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:52:43 +1100
From: Ivan Trundle <[email protected]>
To: link <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LINK] Link Administration
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Sorry, but I?ve missed the overall context of the initial query? Apologies if
Stephen has responded to this off-list.
Members of a list can have their password changed by list administrators (such
as the Link list moderators), or site administrators (the mythical person at
ANU).
At the foot of https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link is a section
for subscribers/members with options to change password or to edit your
preferences (unsubscribe or edit options).
I used to be a site administrator of a Mailman server with a few hundred lists
many years ago, so know my way around most of the list admin features and
functions.
At ANU, each list (and there are not very many publicly visible) has its own
?administrator?. Whilst 9 lists are visible, there are many (or a few - Link is
one of them) more that are not. The overall site administrator appears to be an
unwatched mailbox. I?m not sure if anyone has command-line access to the
software anymore?
The list software is called Mailman, it?s not been updated for a very long time
(legacy product). Sitting on v2.1.15 - there is no-one that I?ve been able to
find at ANU who has full administrator access to the entire Mailman package.
I also suspect that by pushing too hard, someone is going to pull the plug on
the whole package once they realise that it exists (personal view).
The latest version of Mailman is 3.3.10 - but has not been updated since 2024.
Warmly
Ivan
> On 17 Mar 2026, at 6:04?pm, Stephen Loosley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ah, thanks David ..
>
>
> All we used was the Admin login and password here
> But now the only password I was given doesn't work?
>
> https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
>
>
>
> On Monday, 16 March 2026 13:32:03 AEDT Stephen Loosley wrote:
>
>> Anyone know about this, and/or what can be done?
>
> What is the name / version of the package? Could an ANU system administrator
> with access to the 'root' account help? I assume it's still hosted on an ANU
> system with passwords for both Moderator & ordinary users held on a RADIUS or
> similar database.
>
> _DavidL_
>
>
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