[Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
Hi all, I'd like to protect my mailing list archives behind some .htaccess protection, but my mailman installation is a central one which serves a number of different websites. I was thinking I could get around this by using a script to automate a log in to the archives and then scraping

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
by an automated script, which does it silently, so they are not getting any welcome messages and will not know what their subscription password is. I'll have a go using ?password=PASSWORD and see where I get to... Cheers, Phil Mark Sapiro wrote: Phil Ewels wrote: I'd like to protect my mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
overly complicated, so I might just create a dummy account and publicise the login details on a page protected by .htaccess. Messy but easy. Phil Mark Sapiro wrote: Phil Ewels wrote: I'd like to avoid using the standard private archives because that would require users to log in a second

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
of my other websites. Mark Sapiro wrote: Phil Ewels wrote: So everyone will be using the same login details for the .htaccess protection (it's a fairly small group of users who need to access these pages, who all trust each other and having one login for all saves a lot of hassle). So

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding users with cron - permission problems

2010-01-28 Thread Phil Ewels
=0subscribees_upload=email-addressadminpw=adminpassword http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030567 No cron / special permissions needed! Cheers, Phil Mark Sapiro wrote: Phil Ewels wrote: To test, I've been running this cron command: echo t...@testing.co.uk | /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty

[Mailman-Users] Adding users with cron - permission problems

2010-01-27 Thread Phil Ewels
Hi all, I have a registration form where users, amongst other things, choose a number of mailing lists to sign up to. I don't want users to have to go and individually sign up to each list, so I'm trying to automate the signup process. After doing a bit of reading around, the closest I've