[Mailman-Users] multiple mailing list passwords
Tanstaafl
tanstaafl at libertytrek.org
Fri May 30 15:49:38 CEST 2014
On 5/30/2014 4:42 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Tanstaafl writes:
>> It *does*...
> It does?? As you described it, he can let passwordmaker choose his
> password. But he says he can't do that. Or he can specify the whole
> password as the prefix, which is insecure. And AIUI that's not
> acceptable to him either, as far as I can see he's very concerned
> about security. So what's the third option that is both secure and
> allows use of the current password?
Entering the password from memory?
This isn't a limitation of passwordmaker or any other password
program... it is a limitation imposed by the (as far as I understand it,
but I may be missing something too) use case.
As far as I know there is no program that is capable of reading minds
and/or intuiting what password should be used based solely on what
someone knows in their head.
That said, there is actually a more secure option...
passwordmaker has the ability to encrypt the password that is stored, if
the form allows it, which I'm fairly certain mailman's login forms do -
let me check - yep...
So, the only other option that I can offer would be to create a custom
account for the login page in passwordmaker, then add the password
field, username and password fields to the 'Advanced Auto-Populate'
fields as described here:
http://www.passwordmaker.org/Firefox/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Flock/Netscape/Advanced#Advanced_Options:_Advanced_Auto-Populate_Tab
> As far as I can see, you're just saying the requirements are stupid.
No, just trying to help is all... :)
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