[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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