[Mailman-Developers] Need to reset passwords en masse, pls help

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Dec 31 05:55:40 CET 2004


On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 23:22, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2004, at 12:10, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
> > You'll have to run cron/mailpasswds manually to get the new passwords
> > sent out.  This is the script that normally runs once a month to send
> > out password reminders.  You might want to edit
> > templates/en/cronpass.txt to some more relevant message before you run
> > cron/mailpasswds manually.
> 
> You may also want to hack a special version of mailpasswds that skips 
> the checks for disabling password reminders (on by-list and 
> by-user-subscription basis) if you want the mail to go to ALL 
> subscribers.  (Or assume they have disabled the reminders for a reason 
> and are clever enough to use the password reminder button when the time 
> comes for them to need it.)

Good point, thanks.
-Barry

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