[Mailman-Developers] Re-use of private archive cookies

[Forrest Aldrich]

For one of the lists I manage, I would like to provide an accompanying 
"file repository" archive.

Instead of putting up a separate directory with an .htaccess/.htpasswd 
combination, I thought it might be reasonable to add a radio button to the 
authentication page (where the user enters his email address and password) 
to optionally access that repository.

The goal being that once someone authenticated there, the same cookie could 
be used.  And thus it would expire similarly.   It's otherwise cumbersome 
to dig the config.db to get passwords and then enter them into .htpasswd.

This might require some scripting for the document repository, I'm not sure.

Anyhow, I wondered if someone had considered this as a feature or had 
otherwise implemented it.    Yes, someone could just "post" documents to 
the list, but that could be cumbersome when there are many threads to consider.


Thanks alot,

Forrest