Hello,

not sure anyone will have use for this, but I'm submitting it just in case.

I had to do the following on 100+ lists:

for each list:

the administrator(s) becomes moderator(s) a new administrator is added change administrator's password change moderator's password

the list of affected lists is in a file named reglists /home/cat/wk is a directory where I store previous admins lists /home/cat/cfg is a directory where I build the new config file to run on the lists

for i in cat /home/cat/reglists do echo $i # create list of administrators /usr/sbin/list_admins $i | awk -F: '{print $3;}' | sed -e "s/,/\n/g" |sed -e "s/^ //" > /home/cat/wk/$i

# create new configfile echo "# -*- python -*-" > cfg/$i echo "# -*- coding: us-ascii -*-" >>cfg/$i

# new moderators MOD="moderator = [" for j in cat wk/$i; do MOD="$MOD'$j',"; done echo $MOD |sed -se "s/,$/]/" >>cfg/$i

# new administrator echo "owner = ['newadmin@yourmom.com']" >> cfg/$i

# new passwords echo "import sha" >> cfg/$i echo "mlist.password = sha.new('newadminpasswde').hexdigest()" >> cfg/$i echo "mlist.mod_password = sha.new('newmoderatorpasswd').hexdigest()" >> cfg/$i

# apply config file /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i cfg/$i $i

done

thanks to Mark for helping me figuring out the change of passwords in the config file

-- Cat Burning Man Sysadmin Team