DOC/How do I assign a single password to all subscribers in a list?

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:

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from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError

def changeuserpw(mlist, addr, newpasswd):

    try:

        mlist.setMemberPassword(addr, newpasswd)

        mlist.Save()

    except NotAMemberError:

        print 'No address matched:', addr

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3) Create the following small shell script, named "change.userpw"

and make it executable (chmod 700 change.userpw):

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#!/usr/bin/ksh

if $# -ne 2; then

        print "Usage is: $0 list password"

        exit 1

else

        list=$1

        passwd=$2

#---get the list members

list_members $list > /tmp/$list.members

#---change the user passwords

for member in cat /tmp/$list.members

        print "==== $member"

        withlist -l -r changeuserpw $list $member $passwd

done

rm /tmp/$list.members

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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 > /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.

Last changed on Mon Jan 6 20:25:24 2003 by Jeff Earickson Converted from the Mailman FAQ Wizard