[Mailman-Users] password reminder password is wrong

[Mark Sapiro]

Hicks, Robert CTR wrote:

>I have a user that received his password reminder email. He went to login with the password in the email and he got:
>
>	Error: Authentication failed.
>
>I tried the email link and password as well and got the same error.
>
>I tried adding " USE_CRYPT = 0 " to my Defaults.py based on a post I found by Barry W. but that didn't work.


Adding things to mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py that aren't in Defaults.py to
begin with can have no effect, since if they weren't there, nothing
references them. Also, don't change Defaults.py; see
<http://wiki.list.org/x/fIA9>.

FYI, USE_CRYPT was a Mailman 2.0 setting and in any case applied only
to site, list admin and moderator passwords, not user passwords.


>I have moved this mailman installation to a new server (RHEL 5.4), newer mailman (2.1.12), and probably a newer Python (2.4.3).


Since you moved the installation, check the Received: headers in the
password reminder email and see where it came from. Also, check the
DNS entries for the host in the options link to see where it goes to.

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