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This scripting trick works for 2.x versions of Mailman, and
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relies on bin/withlist to work. This scripting trick works for 2.x versions of Mailman, and relies on bin/withlist to work.
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1) Become the "mailman" user, eg "su - mailman". 1) Become the "mailman" user, eg `su - mailman`.
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and make it executable (`chmod 700 change.userpw`):
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3) Create the following small shell script, named "change.userpw"

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4) Run the shell script to change all subscriber passwords 4) Run the shell script to change all subscriber passwords in a specified list, eg:
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change.userpw mylist foobar
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change.userpw mylist foobar will change the password for all subscribers in list "mylist" to foobar.
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will change the password for all subscribers in list "mylist" 5) Check your work and check the status of the database files for the list. You should do a `check_db mylist` to see if you get any complaints (you should not). You should also do a dumpdb on the list's database file and take a look at it. You will find that all subscriber passwords in the database are what you specified for the shell script (if things worked). For example:
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to foobar.

5) Check your work and check the status of the database files

for the list. You should do a "check_db mylist" to see if you

get any complaints (you should not). You should also do a dumpdb

on the list's database file and take a look at it. You will find

that all subscriber passwords in the database are what you

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and so on through all of your subscribers for that list. If all and so on through all of your subscribers for that list. If all of the passwords are "foobar" then things worked.
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of the passwords are "foobar" then things worked. Converted from the Mailman FAQ Wizard
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''Last changed on Mon Jan 6 20:25:24 2003 by'' Jeff Earickson
<<Color2(Converted from the Mailman FAQ Wizard, col=darkgreen)>>This is one of many [[../Frequently Asked Questions|Frequently Asked Questions]].		 This is one of many [[../Frequently Asked Questions|Frequently Asked Questions]].

3.16. How do I assign a single password to all subscribers in a list?

This scripting trick works for 2.x versions of Mailman, and relies on bin/withlist to work.

1) Become the "mailman" user, eg su - mailman.

2) Put the following small file "changeuserpw.py" in the bin subdirectory, making sure that ~/bin is in user mailman's default path, so the file can be found and used: 

from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError

def changeuserpw(mlist, addr, newpasswd):

    try:
        mlist.setMemberPassword(addr, newpasswd)
        mlist.Save()

    except NotAMemberError:
        print 'No address matched:', addr

3) Create the following small shell script, named "change.userpw" and make it executable (chmod 700 change.userpw): 

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then

        print "Usage is: $0 list password"
        exit 1
else
        list=$1
        passwd=$2
fi

#---get the list members

list_members $list &gt; /tmp/$list.members

#---change the user passwords

for member in `cat /tmp/$list.members`

do
        print "==== $member"
        withlist -l -r changeuserpw $list $member $passwd

done

rm /tmp/$list.members

4) Run the shell script to change all subscriber passwords in a specified list, eg: 

change.userpw mylist foobar

will change the password for all subscribers in list "mylist" to foobar.

5) Check your work and check the status of the database files for the list. You should do a check_db mylist to see if you get any complaints (you should not). You should also do a dumpdb on the list's database file and take a look at it. You will find that all subscriber passwords in the database are what you specified for the shell script (if things worked). For example: 

cd /web/data/mailman/lists/mylist

ls -l config.*

dumpdb config.pck &gt; /tmp/mylist.dump

vi /tmp/mylist.dump

And then look for something like: 

'passwords': { 'joeblow@somewhere.com': 'foobar',

and so on through all of your subscribers for that list. If all of the passwords are "foobar" then things worked.

Converted from the Mailman FAQ Wizard

This is one of many Frequently Asked Questions.

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