Subject: [Tools-discuss] Mailman identity

From: "Rosen, Brian" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:07:43 +0000

We use the very wonderful mailman tool for mailing lists.  Mailman has a very simplistic notion of identity.  It has a single password for list management, which is specific to the list and not each administrator, and a separate password for each member of each list.

As I am a manager of four lists and a member of dozens, I have many passwords to keep track of, accepting the fact that the password for member isn't used much.

Since mailman is open source, it might be reasonable to ask that tools team offer a patch to mailman that adds a real identity mechanism, where I have one identity, with the usual tools to manage my identity for all lists a given mailman server manages.  Of course I would like that to be my tools identity, which implies some things that might be harder.

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