[Systers-dev] Project Using Mailman Authentication

[Terri Oda]

Robin Jeffries wrote:
> Mailman has several levels of administrative roles (list moderator --
> approves new subscriptions and posts, list owner -- does everything, and
> site owner -- does everything for all lists.  There might be another role
> called list creator, but I think we just give that to the site owner).
> Mailman does it by having distinct passwords for each role, rather than
> assigning people to the role, so that will take work to graft onto mailman
> (but I don't know how mailman 3.0 does it)  

I *believe* the plan with Mailman 3.0 was to have admin roles be tied to 
individual users, so that they could use their own passwords rather than 
having a shared password for multiple admins.  (Note that password 
reminders will be abolished in Mailman 3.0, so the individuals' 
passwords will no longer be passed around in plaintext.)  I don't know 
off the top of my head if this has been implemented, however.

  Terri