Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber password override?
On Sat, 2019-11-02 at 17:10 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > A site admin can find the users password via bin/dumpdb of the lists > config.pck or can find the password and change it via bin/withlist. This sounds promising. > Assuming you are not a site admin, you can ask her to forward the list > welcome message she received with her current password, I've been trying this with her. She works her Gmail from an Android smartphone, and can't find the Forward button on the Welcome message, if indeed she recognizes it in her inbox. She's a good friend, but elderly and pretty slow (actually _very_ slow) with computers. I'm a bit apprehensive about having her on an email-based list at all. > or as a list > admin, you can remove her from the list, then subscribe her from the > listinfo page with the desired password, and tell her to follow the link > in the confirmation request email she receives. Following a link in a confirmation email may be pushing it with her :( -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber password override?
On 11/2/19 4:30 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I have signed a neighbor up to a mailing list I administer. She's > borderline computer literate and hates passwords, so I said I'd assign > her a simple password. It seems that Mailman 2 doesn't allow the list > administrator to assign passwords and I get "Error: The list > administrator may not change the password for a user" when I try. That's correct. > Is there any way to override this? There should be, since passwords are > as much for protection of the integrity of a list's subscriber base as > they are for protection of a subscriber - and this is rightfully a > concern of the list admin, as is helping subscribers who need some hand > holding. A list admin can't override it except by logging in to the user's options page as the user with the user's current password which the admin may not know. A site admin can find the users password via bin/dumpdb of the lists config.pck or can find the password and change it via bin/withlist. Assuming you are not a site admin, you can ask her to forward the list welcome message she received with her current password, or as a list admin, you can remove her from the list, then subscribe her from the listinfo page with the desired password, and tell her to follow the link in the confirmation request email she receives. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Subscriber password override?
I have signed a neighbor up to a mailing list I administer. She's borderline computer literate and hates passwords, so I said I'd assign her a simple password. It seems that Mailman 2 doesn't allow the list administrator to assign passwords and I get "Error: The list administrator may not change the password for a user" when I try. Is there any way to override this? There should be, since passwords are as much for protection of the integrity of a list's subscriber base as they are for protection of a subscriber - and this is rightfully a concern of the list admin, as is helping subscribers who need some hand holding. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| - Ancient wisdom, all cultures -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
