Okay, I mucked with the script I sent you for about a half an hour and this is what I came up with:

touch /etc/httpd/.htaccess.mpdladaux for i in ~mailman/bin/list_members mpdladaux do PASS="strings ~mailman/lists/mpdladaux/config.db | \ grep -i -A1 $i |head -5 |tail -1 | sed 's/s$//' " htpasswd -b /etc/httpd/.htaccess.mpdladaux $i $PASS done

This should work for you without any modifications. Note: I've found a better way of dumping the data out of the config list (than using "strings") which would let this work across all versions of Mailman, but that would require an other hour and this should work just fine!

Jon Carnes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mailing List, Spotted Dog" <maillist@spotteddog.com> To: <jonc@nc.rr.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:43 PM Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] User database for htaccess

I really appreciate your help on this as I'm sure that I am only making it more complicated than it has to be.

The setup I have is under /home/mailman

The list I am trying to set this for is mpdladaux

And I would like the password database to reside at /etc/httpd/

I have an understanding of the .htaccess and htpasswd program as I have a few other directories that are protected by htaccess, but I'm not to keen on making it automated, up to now I have had to do it all by hand, but with users being able to change their passwords at will it makes it kind of frustrating for me.

Thanks Patrick Agee pagee@spotteddog.com