[Mailman-Users] sharing administrator passwords

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Tue May 27 15:55:36 CEST 2008


Thanks Brad
<snip>
>But there's one and only one site admin password.  And whoever has 
>site admin password can do anything at all that they want to your 
>Mailman installation -- if it can be done from the web, they can do 
>it.
>
>
>You really don't want to be sharing the site admin password with 
>anyone that you don't trust to have full root level access to your 
>mail servers.
>
>Which brings us right back to where we were.

Right, what people want is a way to remember one password to administer
15 or so lists on one site, without having the site password, because
there is _nobody_ we trust to administer all the lists.  So that password
is only used by sysadmins for rare emergencies.

Laura



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