Hey there everyone,

I am currently looking into implementing multiple administrator or moderator passwords into the 3.x series of Mailman, and would like some guidance as to what parts of the code I should poke around with.

When I say multiple passwords, I mean that an administrator of a mailing list can log into the admin interface with his password for the mailing list - instead of having one password to rule them all. Similar to the way moderators on forum software work.

For example; I would like to be able to say:

"jdavies is now a moderator and may log in using his list password"

Also, I understand that there may be situations where the administrator/moderator may not wish to follow the threads in the list but would like to perform the admin/mod role nonetheless - in this case he/she would not have a list password to log in with. Does anyone know where I could possibly implement a 'Don't send me email from this list' option?

Right now, I'm looking into 'def AuthContextInfo(...)' in 3.0/mailman/SecurityManager.py - is this a good place to start working on this?

Also, that snippet of code refers to getMemberPassword(user) - however I cannot find this function defined in any part of the 3.x code. While in 2.2, I have found it under '2.2/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py'. Does someone know what its status in 3.x is?

Cheers, Jonathan

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