toddcurry Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 Is it possible to tie mailman username/passwords to .htaccess for the site? I'd like to set up individual passwords for both, without having to enter hundreds by hand. Any thoughts? Thanks, Todd Curry Quote
rayners Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 I'm not exactly sure I follow what you want to do. Are you looking for each person to have a common username/password that can be used throughout your site? Is that the basic idea here? Quote
rayners Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 Here's something I found in the Mailman FAQ that you might find useful: 3.7. Setting up Web access using MM list passwords - for Apache The scripts there might require a little modification, but I imagine that should accomplish what you're looking for. Quote
Lianna Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 Side Curiosity? Hope you don't mind me delving this topic a bit deeper.... How does Mailman store its users names and passwords? Is it a db or what? Are you using the Mailing list bi-directionally or are you the only one that can post to it (more like a newsletter)? The reason that I'm asking is that I wonder if Mailman is the right tool for the job here. Recently came across aMember - a membership /subscription based application. The Pro version will allow: E-mail broadcast to your customers. E-mail to all of your customers, expired customers as well as customers of a specified product The term product refers to your offering whether that be a paid or free membership area of your site. You can look into it at: http://www.cgi-central.net/scripts/amember/ There is a free version as well, but doesn't support the broadcast mailing. Lianna Quote
rayners Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 How does Mailman store its users names and passwords? Is it a db or what? As far as I can tell from reading the docs and looking at my own mailing lists just now, they are stored in a file that only mailman can access. So perhaps the method described in the FAQ won't work. Quote
toddcurry Posted February 19, 2003 Author Posted February 19, 2003 I'm not exactly sure I follow what you want to do. Are you looking for each person to have a common username/password that can be used throughout your site? Is that the basic idea here? Yes, exactly -- and that script you posted might just do it! This needn't be 100% secure, just casually secure. Looks like I'll have to alter the script a bit (with rusty perl) to handle the hosting env here, but glad it is doable. By the way, David, you are the reason I moved my hosting over to TCH -- your MT blog talked about Mailman at TCH, and a quick call to your mt-check.cgi confirmed that Image::Magick was installed on their servers, so boom: I found 90% of what I was looking for in one fell swoop. I told TCH that you were the reason I joined, btw. Anyway, thanks for your help -- both here and in your blog Todd Quote
toddcurry Posted February 19, 2003 Author Posted February 19, 2003 Side Curiosity? Hope you don't mind me delving this topic a bit deeper.... How does Mailman store its users names and passwords? Is it a db or what? Are you using the Mailing list bi-directionally or are you the only one that can post to it (more like a newsletter)? The reason that I'm asking is that I wonder if Mailman is the right tool for the job here. Recently came across aMember - a membership /subscription based application. The Pro version will allow: E-mail broadcast to your customers. E-mail to all of your customers, expired customers as well as customers of a specified product The term product refers to your offering whether that be a paid or free membership area of your site. You can look into it at: http://www.cgi-central.net/scripts/amember/ There is a free version as well, but doesn't support the broadcast mailing. Lianna Lianna, we've tried a few programs out there and Mailman does 110% of what we want and need. Mojomail is a close second, and it, too, is open source. Thanks Quote
rayners Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 Yes, exactly -- and that script you posted might just do it! This needn't be 100% secure, just casually secure. Looks like I'll have to alter the script a bit (with rusty perl) to handle the hosting env here, but glad it is doable. After tinkering with things in my account, it looks like using that script may not be possible. Mailman's config files for each list are readable by Mailman only. Which is probably safest anyway. If anybody could read those files, they could run dumpdb on them and get all the users' passwords. I'll have to see if I can come up with a way "around" that. No promises though. By the way, David, you are the reason I moved my hosting over to TCH -- your MT blog talked about Mailman at TCH, and a quick call to your mt-check.cgi confirmed that Image::Magick was installed on their servers, so boom: I found 90% of what I was looking for in one fell swoop. I told TCH that you were the reason I joined, btw. Anyway, thanks for your help -- both here and in your blog I'm glad to hear I could be of service, Todd. I have had a couple issues trying to run Image::Magick. I'm sure I can probably work them out, I just haven't yet sat down to do it because NetPBM works well enough for me at the moment. Quote
TCH-Rick Posted February 19, 2003 Posted February 19, 2003 I have had a couple issues trying to run Image::Magick. I'm sure I can probably work them out, I just haven't yet sat down to do it because NetPBM works well enough for me at the moment. I have had problems with Movable Type and Image::Magick as well. Seems to be a known problem with MT 2.51 (and still not working in 2.6). I have another program that uses Image::Magick to create thumbnails and it works great. Quote
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