Hi Mark, Thanks for responding.
I changed the site passwd using bin/mmsitepass. And now when I try creating a new mail list thru the browser, it comes back with: Error: Illegal list name. Are these problems/errors documented somewhere? Is there something that I am missing? Regards Elvis On 12/8/05, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Elvis Fernandes wrote: > > > >I get the following msg on the web browser: > >Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists. > > > >I am able to create this new mail list using the command line newlist > >Could someone tell me what is going on? > > Anyone who can run the newlist command as the mailman user (or root) > can use it to create a list, and can do pretty much anything else to > mailman, but this is a pretty tight restriction, at least on most > machines. > > Not so for web access, thus the list create page requires a password - > List creator's (authentication) password: (the last entry on the > form). Are you providing either the site password or the special list > creator password (both generated by bin/mmsitepass) in this entry? > > -- > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > ------------------------------------------------------ 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
