On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 01:04:46 -0800 J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:

On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:44:08 -0800 J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:

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I'm suddenly unable to log into the admin interfaces for my lists. Nothing gets posted to the log files on failed attempts.

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Poking about in ~/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py around the code:

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global cgi_data cgi_data = cgi.FieldStorage()

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AFAICT cgi_data is getting set to an empty dictionary (it doesn't seem to be "None"). Ideas?

Okay, not examply an empty dictionary (FieldStorage class), but it is empty per its own keys() and __len__ method. However, snooping the wire shows the POST with the "adminpw" in it set correctly.

The apparancy is that for some reason the Cgi module is not getting the FORM variables properly.

Poking around even more:

FieldStorage is blank. It is not getting the form variable (adminpw) from the login form. I don't know why.

If I put the PW on the URL ala:

http://server/mailman/admin/listname/?adminpw=password

then everything works just fine up until I try and submit another form.

I'm not sure where to go from here. Barry, got any pointers?

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