[Mailman-Users] Retrieving moderator password

Leonardo Rochael Almeida lra at insite.com.br
Thu Sep 21 00:47:52 CEST 2000


On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Thomas Gramstad wrote:

> > 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...

oh, no, no. See, if you have 25 lists, you should have, at least on
mailman 1.x, 25 passwords. You may set them to the same string, but they
are 25 independent passwords nonetheless :-)




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