At our University, we use a special username/password (called a "UNet" account) for all web-related items. We can match the UNet username directly to the user's University e-mail address.
I would like to use this username/password for all list members who have a UNet account, but fall through to the mailman-generated password for those who do not. We do not have access to the actual password--it is stored only as a Unix hash so we can't simply insert it into the mailman password database (and we wouldn't want to send it out via e-mail on a monthly basis in any case). Has anyone else implemented something like this? What I'm looking at as a possibility is setting up an Apache .htaccess file so that all of the mailman directories are password protected, but allow guest access (Apache has a special module that will do this). If a user logs in using their UNet account, map it to their e-mail address and bypass mailman's login process. If the user logs in as a guest, do not bypass mailman's login process. Has anyone already done this? If so, are there already any instructions somewhere for how to do this? Any foreseeable problems with this method? Jerry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ -- The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the governmentıs power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
