[Mailman-Users] remove moderator password from all lists

[Mailman-Users] remove moderator password from all lists

	Florian Effenberger
	May 22, 2010 at 1:17 pm

Hello,

is there any tool or script to remove the moderator passwords from all
mailing lists? I've lost the plot on which lists have a moderation
password and which don't, so I'd love to reset all of them.

Thanks,
Florian

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Mark Sapiro: See the FAQ at . The input you want is mod_password = None -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Florian Effenberger: Hi Mark, 2010/5/22 Mark Sapiro : thanks a lot! Can the normal list administration password also be changed via that way, and if so, which parameter do I need to use? password = (without mod)? Thanks! Florian
Mark Sapiro: To set the list admin password you can use password = 'value' but value is a sha digest of the plain text password. In order to set the plain text password, you would need the input to config_list to be something like from Mailman.Utils import sha_new password = sha_new('new_password').hexdigest() but this will only work with Mailman 2.1.12 and later. For older mailman, this needs to be import sha password = sha.new('new_password').hexdigest() but this will issue a deprecation warning with

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