Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable To Create Mailman Lists

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carlos Williams wrote:

I just installed Mailman 2.1.9-4 on my Linux mail server and
configured it according to the online guide straight from the Mailman
site. It appears to be working fine and I get hit the main page via
Apache and see the only pubic list available called 'Mailman'. Now I
selected the 'Admin Overview Page' and it takes me straight to the
'Admin' page with out any credentials for password or anything. Is
this normal Mailman behavior? Should anyone be able to simply hit my
Mailman public page and walk right into the 'Admin' page with put any
credentials?


I don't understand. Are you saying you go to
http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/ and you wind up at
http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman/? If so, this is
something in your Apache config.

Or, are you saying you can go directly to the admin interface at
http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman/ without going through
the login page. If this is the issue, there are two possible causes.
Either you previously logged in in this browser session and still have
the login cookie, or you set a null site admin password with
bin/mmsitepass (accepting a null password is a bug fixed in MM 2.1.13
to be released soon)

Secondly - since I am in the 'Admin' page, I then attempt to select
the link that says create a new mailing list


This is on the admin overview page, not the list admin page. The
overview page does not require authentication. If that's the issue
above, it's not a problem.


which takes me to a new
page for adding all the criteria for the new list I would like to
generate. At the very bottom, it has a blank field box for List
creator's (authentication) password: and I simply have no idea what
that is. If I leave it blank or type in the password for the only
Mailman list I have called Mailman, I get an error when creating the
new list that says: Error: You are not authorized to create new
mailing lists


You need to use either the 'site' password or the special list creator
password. See bin/mmsitepass --help.

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[Mailman-Users] Unable To Create Mailman Lists

2009-11-09 Thread Carlos Williams
I just installed Mailman 2.1.9-4 on my Linux mail server and
configured it according to the online guide straight from the Mailman
site. It appears to be working fine and I get hit the main page via
Apache and see the only pubic list available called 'Mailman'. Now I
selected the 'Admin Overview Page' and it takes me straight to the
'Admin' page with out any credentials for password or anything. Is
this normal Mailman behavior? Should anyone be able to simply hit my
Mailman public page and walk right into the 'Admin' page with put any
credentials?

Secondly - since I am in the 'Admin' page, I then attempt to select
the link that says create a new mailing list which takes me to a new
page for adding all the criteria for the new list I would like to
generate. At the very bottom, it has a blank field box for List
creator's (authentication) password: and I simply have no idea what
that is. If I leave it blank or type in the password for the only
Mailman list I have called Mailman, I get an error when creating the
new list that says: Error: You are not authorized to create new
mailing lists

Can someone please tell me what I did wrong?

Thanks so much!

-Carlos
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable To Create Mailman Lists

2009-11-09 Thread Krishnadas Kossery

Regarding point 2. 

Open the Command line interface,

Cd $prefix/mailman
bin/mmsitepass new passwd

Now try again to create new mailing lists with this passwd. 
 



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Subject: [Mailman-Users] Unable To Create Mailman Lists

I just installed Mailman 2.1.9-4 on my Linux mail server and
configured it according to the online guide straight from the Mailman
site. It appears to be working fine and I get hit the main page via
Apache and see the only pubic list available called 'Mailman'. Now I
selected the 'Admin Overview Page' and it takes me straight to the
'Admin' page with out any credentials for password or anything. Is
this normal Mailman behavior? Should anyone be able to simply hit my
Mailman public page and walk right into the 'Admin' page with put any
credentials?

Secondly - since I am in the 'Admin' page, I then attempt to select
the link that says create a new mailing list which takes me to a new
page for adding all the criteria for the new list I would like to
generate. At the very bottom, it has a blank field box for List
creator's (authentication) password: and I simply have no idea what
that is. If I leave it blank or type in the password for the only
Mailman list I have called Mailman, I get an error when creating the
new list that says: Error: You are not authorized to create new
mailing lists

Can someone please tell me what I did wrong?

Thanks so much!

-Carlos
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable To Create Mailman Lists

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Shang

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Carlos Williams wrote:


I just installed Mailman 2.1.9-4 on my Linux mail server and
configured it according to the online guide straight from the Mailman
site. It appears to be working fine and I get hit the main page via
Apache and see the only pubic list available called 'Mailman'. Now I
selected the 'Admin Overview Page' and it takes me straight to the
'Admin' page with out any credentials for password or anything. Is
this normal Mailman behavior? Should anyone be able to simply hit my
Mailman public page and walk right into the 'Admin' page with put any
credentials?


Yes.  You can't do anything there without a password of some sort, but hte 
password required will depend on which list you want to edit.



Secondly - since I am in the 'Admin' page, I then attempt to select
the link that says create a new mailing list which takes me to a new
page for adding all the criteria for the new list I would like to
generate. At the very bottom, it has a blank field box for List
creator's (authentication) password: and I simply have no idea what
that is. If I leave it blank or type in the password for the only
Mailman list I have called Mailman, I get an error when creating the
new list that says: Error: You are not authorized to create new
mailing lists


You need to create a site password. 
http://list.org/./mailman-install/node6.html


Geoff.

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