[Mailman-Developers] mass subscribe bug

John Viega viega@list.org
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 08:15:49 -0700


Here's the error previously mentioned, as reported to me, w/ excess
headers, etc. trimmed.

John

----- Forwarded message from Matt Chatterley <matt@mpc.dyn.ml.org> -----

Occurs when trying to mass subscribe.

Seems to have started after upgrading python, version information:

Python 1.5.1 (#1, May 29 1998, 12:50:41)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux2

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Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/home/mailman/scripts/admin", line 823, in ?
    main()
  File "/home/mailman/scripts/admin", line 157, in main
    is_auth = isAuthenticated(lst)
  File "/home/mailman/scripts/admin", line 103, in isAuthenticated
    inp = base64.decodestring(c[list_name + "-admin"].value)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/base64.py", line 46, in decodestring
    decode(f, g)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/base64.py", line 32, in decode
    s = binascii.a2b_base64(line)
Error: Incorrect padding