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It has a script to dump out the users email addresses and passwords to a file that is usable via apache for authentication. It does exactly what you need. But don't let that stop you from writing a Python program for managing the passwords stored in the database. I'm toying with that right now myself (as are some others based on very recent posting!) Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 21:49, Phillip L. Harbison wrote: > Elaine Miller wrote: > > Nicolas Steenhout wrote: > > > I want for the list to be restricted to registered users [...] > > > Most importantly, I would like users to be able to POST to the > > > list from the web. > > > > Hmm. Seems like one ought to be able to set up a simple formmail > > on an html page, since Formmail sends to the set address as coming > > "from" the email address the user enters. > > I assume Nicolas wants a solution that only allows registered users > to post to the list using the web. I have a similar need. > > > Might be harder to stop spammers with this one... > > Exactly. I have a simple form and a CGI written in Perl that allows > anyone to send mail as long as they know a password. Unfortunately, > the only way for the entire list to use this is to broadcast the > password to the list (which is NOT a Good Thing(tm)). What I would > like is a CGI that would look up the password in Mailman's user DB. > Has anyone done this? If not, I will put on my programming hat and > learn python. > > -- > Phil Harbison > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org