[Mailman-Users] A Vote Against Passwords

[Scott Russell]

BTW, if someone wants such a script to be included in a contrib directory
of mailman 2.x let me know and I'll clean up the one I have for my site
and send it in.

-- Scott

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:32:17PM -0400, Scott Russell wrote:
> It's trivial to write a php (or perl) cgi that would allow a user to enter
> their email address, choose a list, and submit the info to subscribe
> without ever choosing a password.
> 
> Lets say you have a list called easylist at mailman.org. Sending an email to
> easylist-request at mailman.org with the body of the message as 
> 
>   subscribe address=newuser at nowhere.com
> 
> should subscribe the new address and send them an email confirmation
> according to the list settings. Done this way mailman will generate a
> password for the new user. If they wish to unsubscribe or change options
> they will need that password.
> 
> Hope this helps a bit.
> 
> -- 
> Scott
> 
>  On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:23:10PM -0400, Mentor Cana wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, at 13:42, Dan Mick wrote:
> > > Mentor Cana wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I believe that entering the password should be option. That is, if the user
> > > > enters a password  it should be used, otherwise, let mailman chose a
> > > > password.
> > > 
> > > I'm confused; how is that different from what MM does today?
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, as it stands now, if a person wants to subscribe to a list, a
> > password is required. That is, the person can't subscribe without entering
> > the password (twice) in the required fields.
> > 
> > later,
> > Mentor
> > 
> > 

-- 
Regards,
 Scott Russell (scottrus at raleigh.ibm.com)
 Linux Technology Center, System Admin
 Red Hat Certified Engineer