[Mailman-Users] admin pages keep asking for password

[Tom Wells]

Christopher Lindsey opined...

  > I've noticed that *everytime* I try to change a list's settings,
  > I'm asked for the password.  Then the change doesn't take effect.
  > 
  > What's wrong with this program?  Seems to be doing this consistently.
  > Locks in the lock file are persistent, with uid nobody, gid mailman, 
  > perms of 664 on each, perms of 2775 on the locks directory itself
  > 
  > I'm new to this program, and I don't know Python, so if additional
  > info is needed, tell me how to supply it.
  
  Your browser is probably not accepting cookies, which Mailman uses 
  to maintain an authenticated state.
  
  Chris

it's accepting cookies, and they get stored in .netscape/cookies.
Here's the line for one of the lists:


$SERVER	 FALSE	/mailman/	FALSE	944808485	$LIST:admin	"(lp1\012S'192.168.1.76'\012p2\012aI944797684\012aI944808484\012aI240932247\012a."



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Tom Wells
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