On 04/29/2018 06:00 AM, Rafael Salasnik wrote:

Hi

Any idea of how to give moderators access to mailing list administration in hostgator?

Give them the list admin password.

This can be confusing as there are 4 independent list attributes involved. There are the 'owner' and 'moderator' lists of addresses. These only control where various messages and notices are sent. I.e. mail to LISTNAME-owner and most Mailman generated notices go to both the owner and the moderator addresses, but a few notices go to owner addresses only.

There are also administrator and moderator passwords. From the point of view of the web UI and administrator is one who visits the 'admin' pages and authenticates with the administrator password. A moderator is one who visits the 'admindb' pages and authenticates with either the administrator password or the moderator password.

I.e. authentication with the moderator password allows access only to the 'admindb' pages. Authentication with the administrator password allows access to both the 'admin' and the 'admindb' pages. These access rights have nothing to do with any addresses in the 'owner' and 'moderator' lists.

All the above is 'generic' GNU Mailman. If Hostgator has made changes to their Mailman, things could be different there. I do see that Hostgator appears to use cPanel and I know that cPanel Mailman has some changes in the area of web authentication, but even so I suspect that if you want to give someone access to the 'admin' UI, they have to authenticate as an admin.

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