[Mailman-Users] Retrieving moderator password

[Thomas Gramstad]

> If you still have the mailman global-master-super-duper-power
> password, you can use it anywhere a password is required and
> change a list moderator password this way.

That would be something that the people who installed Mailman
at the server at the university have, right?  I've never even
heard of such a password.  And I don't have access to the
server where all the system files are.

Are you telling me that there is nothing I can do as a list
administrator if my co-moderator loses his moderator password
(and nothing he can do), other than asking the university
computer staff to change and/or send the password to him?

Thomas Gramstad
thomas at ifi.uio.no

--

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> 
> > > You can change the moderator password at the web interface,
> > 
> > But that requires that you first provide the old password,
> > does it not?  (Which he doesn't have.)
> > 
> > > but the only time it is sent out is at list creation, AFAIK
> > 
> > No, also when a new moderator is added (who is not or has never
> > been a moderator of another list at the same site).
> > 
> > Thomas Gramstad
> > thomas at ifi.uio.no
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> > > 
> > > > One of my lists has two moderators and now my co-moderator has
> > > > forgotten his moderator password.  How can he get it back?
> > > > 
> > > > First he tried the password that he can get e-mailed to him via
> > > > the subscription page, but that's clearly a different password,
> > > > used only for un/sub.cribing.  (How can these passwords be made
> > > > the same -- automatically -- so that he only needs to think about
> > > > one password?)
> > > > 
> > > > Then we tried that I removed him as a moderator, and then
> > > > reinstated him, thinking that Mailman would then send him the (or
> > > > a new) moderator password.  No such luck.  Mailman remembered him,
> > > > and has apparently decided that he only gets his password exactly
> > > > once in his lifetime... unless there is some other solution...
> > > > (I should add that my co-moderator isn't sloppy with passwords --
> > > > he kept it in an encrypted file, but then his PC crashed and the
> > > > file was lost.  Of course that's what happens when one uses a PC
> > > > with Microsoft, but still...)
> > > > 
> > > > Thomas Gramstad
> > > > thomas at ifi.uio.no
> > > > 
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