[Mailman-Users] How do I link into the archive page to controlaccess

[Mark Sapiro]

precision at comcast.net wrote:

>I have a site with multiple email lists (all private).  It's easy to keep 
>unwanted persons from posting to the lists, but I would like to tie into/replace 
>the main archive page for each list with a php script tied into the site which 
>uses the user information/privileges that are already built into the web site to 
>control access to the list.  The web site uses the users email as their account 
>and it is password protected.  I have a privilege mechanism set up on the site 
>to grant users access to various functionality.  I'd like to use that same 
>mechanism to grant privilege to viewing the lists.  Is there a way that I can 
>replace the "default" archive page with a php version which I could tie the 
>existing privilege/security mechanism that already exists on the web site and 
>control access to viewing the list through it?

If I understand it, you want to replace Mailman's private archive
access control with your own php based one.

I think you could make the archives public and add your php to the
archtoc.html and archtocnombox.html templates, but this would allow
people to bypass your validation by going directly to a message or
lower level page. You might be able to do it effectively by modifying
more templates, but I'm not sure.

See
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.048.htp
for info on modifying templates. After you modify an archive template,
you have to rebuild the archives (normally just
bin/arch --wipe <listname>
) to get the modifications into existing pages.

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