I used to be careful about saving my passwords for all the lists [Mailman*] I am subscribed to. I no longer bother...I request the mail out of the password if I need it (very rare).
If the situation becomes a choice of 1. mail out the password becomes generate a new time-limited password and mail that Or 2. do away with passwords and have everything validated via a mailed-out URL I think I as a user would prefer 2. As a list owner, ANY change causes queries and unhappiness among the ranks of the subscribers. And as site administrator, I would have to coordinate removal of passwords or even the "new time-limited password" idea with our main list owner, who has her own scripting to hide the passwords from the subscribers (who don't do things via the Mailman web pages). I concur with the idea of getting the simple patch out for the CAN-2005-0202 problem quickly in 2.1.6 and getting the password removal/changes into a 2.1.7 [or 2.2 as has also been suggested] (pretty soon and with very little if anything else). We shouldn't assume MySQL as the SQL server; we shouldn't assume LDAP as the password database. Here, we're phasing out MySQL in favor of PostgreSQL for licensing reasons, and trying to phase out LDAP in favor of SQL for stability reasons. But we can't make those decisions for others, of course. Bigger stuff I think has to wait for Mailman 3...this would include password databases, subscriber databases site wide, etc. --John (who for medical reasons can't be of any help, but must continue cheering from the sidelines. Sorry!) On 2/10/2005 10:55, "Chuq Von Rospach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this might not be a bad idea, but -- would require all operations to be > validated via a URL emailed to the affected address. But I could live > with that. > > > On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Adrian Bye wrote: > >> Getting rid of passwords would open up mailman to usage to a much >> wider range of >> users, which should mean more development resources and interest. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers 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-developers/archive%40jab.org