[Mailman-Users] Retrieving moderator password

[Thomas Gramstad]

> Well, at least on mailman 1.x (which is what I use) there is only one
> list admin password, so your password would be the same as his.

Uh...
So if I have 25 lists (which I do), and I have a co-moderator on ONE
of them, then he has actually in reality become a list-owner of ALL
my lists!?  Is this really true??  I find it hard to believe that
someone would actually design it that way purposely... huge bug...

Thomas Gramstad
thomas at ifi.uio.no

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> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> 
> > > 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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