At 9:29 AM -0500 2005-11-03, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: > >> The command-line tools are the API. If you can't use them >> because your web server is trying to run them under the wrong group >> id, I don't know that there's anything else we can do for you. > > As a site admin I see a slight problem with the command line tools, > in that they don't seem to accept a list password. I have to make some sort > of wrapper for them so that a list owner can only access their own list.
The command-line tools are definitely intended to be used by the site admin. There is no provision for list admins to use them, especially since you may need to be running as root or other privileged userid in order to do certain things. Unfortunately, that's the way Mailman works today. If you'd like to see this get fixed, please file an RFE on the Mailman RFE page at SourceForge. Better still, come up with a patch (or have someone else come up with a patch) and upload that to the Mailman patch page at SourceForge, which would be much more likely to be incorporated into the code base in the near future. There's an infinite array of things that we'd like to see get fixed in future versions of Mailman, and a very finite amount of time available to do those things. As an open source project, we cannot do everything alone and are dependant on the other people in the community to help contribute improvements to the system. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp