[Mailman-Users] Security / AOL

[Jon Loose]

Hi,

First of all - thanks to those who pointed me to help for setting up mailman to run under https. This now works fine.  Some may be interested to know that for reasons of security I also disabled monthly password reminders and also password reminders being sent out through the user's options.  As this is a relatively small list, users with bad memories can call the admin on the 'phone!  I think that means the system could be classed as better than "moderately" secure?  The only place where an email is sent with the password in is on registration, and users are recommended to go and change this immediately to something personal/memorable.  

Second - I have found problems with invites to AOL addresses. Is this a common issue?  If so, I'd be interested to know what the issue is, and if anything can be done (apart from obviously encouraging people to dump AOL!).

Also, I note from looking at pending.pck that one such user has a list of 'evictions' under his entry.  What is an eviction?  The entry in question is:

 'e929ac850996794ab75f6c03e908f1dc253e8747': (   'S',
                                                    <UserDesc username-deleted at aol.com () [moipocub] [digest? no] [en]>),
    'evictions': {   '003ae117d826c932853b6bbe92e84b392f6add36': 1158387865.3472359,
                     '1d5e5f824d6bea5a3116b5ad709709efe21f8169': 1158385811.192379,
                     '20bfd3d2212bcee0735e0ad067ff73ff36f151d7': 1158387865.254734,
                     '286f1ad1a6bf7cc5940f232fc7cfb2b5a14ff51e': 1158387865.2473321,
                     '2d8588ecfb3a82d7dfbd5852989f38faf0a07e93': 1158387865.310961,
                     '2f0172d763be1f0709d4c3639682f4e54e99cd5f': 1158387865.141645,
                     '5158d2a87337af5b09686756d6f0efe6f0e19d5f': 1158387865.277936,
                     '61edc1f4f55ce1f811073febb9517e331b0b61e5': 1158387865.319797,
                     '6cc076d45447fe4e8a53c7173f69f27d06bbb49b': 1158387865.224859,
                     '735f704bfaff30e44411c5cf5938ca50298480a4': 1158387865.1647251,
                     '7e685288c4ab3704846459aa8d79084f6ef092f2': 1158387865.3380909,
                     '894fa76bd789fc5cfb3b7de406e9fabaedd38d4c': 1158387865.217824,
                     '908f3dbbe3b892bfe699916be6f65d8cd333cc44': 1158387865.1587031,
                     '99e6ccdee5e2b4bc550e02b1305db2a07999ba03': 1158387865.1304629,
                     '9cc06885b749cbb38ebd79016b6b83da0102d058': 1158387865.270174,
                     'a61de3c122dc9451ba657ce2da690e313138d889': 1158387865.239975,
                     'bc2cda4864912b1482feaceaf5ef46e305340a1e': 1158387865.136193,
                     'c4359dbfadcb2910c81ec79adf8bdbfa9860d8b4': 1158387865.2859111,
                     'c67f54b61abe21fd0b71fa755724dda504035d6d': 1158083434.2926841,
                     'd26c1b2ee79d56655199686e54129725cabab321': 1158387865.197608,
                     'dbfc53b7fc28b6a72cda464722dc56f3d439e29b': 1158387865.152842,
                     'e73d1ee3b7049ded2dfd16516d903a200c1c84f1': 1158387865.1241641,
                     'e8b0853b66995dfc18d576a8a4669a0c6f0f1b6c': 1158387865.2942879,
                     'e929ac850996794ab75f6c03e908f1dc253e8747': 1158387865.1851201,
                     'f1f95811560fffebeb625ecba2411e4d6e5c75e8': 1158387865.3288679,
                     'f3b68e41056b4acceed024217921bbe4a77688c7': 1158387865.356668,
                     'fa2e6c1b728d07153e12da06248947e54e458603': 1158387865.2624021,
                     'fc250aa57fd41dafccffdf6a80dbc18aff3f636a': 1158387865.1912529},

Thanks as ever,

Jon