On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:10:54PM -0500, Hopkins, Justin wrote:

One issue that has come up among the membership is the desire to authenticate only once and then be permitted to access the private archives for all lists that they are subscribed to without logging in again.

Has anyone worked on changing this functionality, or is it planned for

Hum, we're sort of doing something like that, at least for lists-admin.

<https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/rlog?f=mysociety/lists/web-admin/lists/mailmanlogin.cgi>

(http://is.gd/AO16)

might be a starting point for you.

(and also https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/dir?d=mysociety/lists/web-admin/lists/mailman (http://is.gd/AO1s))

(In our case authentication works via Apache Basic Auth, unix groups, and password-generation scripts https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/rlog?f=mysociety/bin/htpasswd_import_users (http://is.gd/AO1Z)

it should be quite trivial to implement using LDAP, too.)