[Mailman-Users] Using alternate password repository?

[Tom Emerson]

I am maintaining several mailing lists associated with an organization
that includes password-protected access to certain areas of its
website. I do not like the idea of having separate passwords for
mailing list preferences access and website access.

Ideally both the http server and Mailman would share authentication
information. This can be accomplished by either writing an Apache
authentication module that makes use of the Mailman information (but
which if the user belongs to multiple lists?) or Mailman authenticates
against another mechanism that is used by the server, such as a MySQL
table.

My questions, then, are these:

1) Has anyone else handled this?

2) If so, how?

3) If not, what would the Mailman intelligencia recommend?

I have not spent a lot of time reading the Mailman code, but it would
seem that it would be relatively straightforward to write a
replacement to SecurityManager.py that authenticates against something
other than the marshalled dictionary.

Thanks in advance,

    -tree

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Tom Emerson                                          Basis Technology Corp.
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