[Mailman-Users] Retrieving user passwords

[Jon Carnes]

Check out the FAQ 1.5 entry (for running without passwords)
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.005.htp

For a script to dump out the current passwords you can modify the one in FAQ
3.7
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.005.htp

To just dump out the passwords without creating the htpassword list (used by
apache), comment out the line that begins with "htpasswd -b ... " and then
uncomment the next line that begins with "# echo $i ..."

You could write a small python program to open the database (config.db) and
blank out the passwords.  I don't believe anyone has done that yet - but it
would be quite easy to do.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Murrain" <tech at murrain.net>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Retrieving user passwords


> We set up a list and subscribed people to it silently. Is there a way
> to either have us retrieve the passwords for the whole batch, or for
> us to set all passwords to blank, so users can easily unsubscribe w/o
> having to go an retrieve their own passwords (it's an especially
> clueless bunch, we're learning).
>
> Thanks!
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> .Michelle
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