[Mailman-Users] password problems on new install

[Andy McClements]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, but this wasn't the problem. I only have one
instance of the python binary, in /usr/local/bin.

Any else got any ideas ?

Andy McClements
London

At 11:39 01/07/99 -0700, George Feil wrote:
>I was experiencing the same problem, and just fixed it.  The cause seems to
>be the fact that I had two versions of python (1.5.1, from the RedHat 5.2
>installation, and 1.5.2, which I compiled myself).
>
>Check to see if you have multiple versions of python installed, particularly
>in different directories (/usr/local/bin and /usr/bin were the culprits in
>my case).
>
>George Feil
>Chief Hacker
>Stardragon Consulting, Inc.
>http://www.stadragon.com
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailman-users-admin at python.org
>> [mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Andy McClements
>> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 11:18 AM
>> To: mailman-users at python.org
>> Subject: [Mailman-Users] password problems on new install
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've just installed Mailman 1.0rc2 without any obvious problems.
>>
>> When I create a new list using the newlist script, as per
>> INSTALL Section
>> 5. called "test-list", with my own address as the administrator, I am
>> mailed the instructions, including the password provided to "newlist".
>>
>> However when I go to the admin web interface at
>> http://my.list.server/mailman/admin.cgi/test-list,
>> I am told "Sorry, wrong password. Try again."
>>
>> I've also created a password using "mmsitepass", but this is
>> also rejected.
>>
>> What's happening ? TIA !
>>
>> Andy McClements
>> London
>>
>>
>> The system is running:
>>
>> RedHat Linux 5.2
>> gcc 2.7.2.3
>> Apache 1.3.6 (compiled on this system)
>> Python 1.5.2 (compiled on this system)
>>
>> configured using:
>>
>> $prefix=/usr/local/mailman
>> --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python
>> --with-mail-gid=mail
>> --with-cgi-gid=nobody
>> --with-cgi-ext=.cgi
>>
>> I correctly set the permissions on the $prefix directory.
>>
>> I added to httpd.conf:
>>
>> Alias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"
>>
>> <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public">
>>     Options FollowSymLinks
>>     AllowOverride None
>>     Order allow,deny
>>     Allow from all
>> </Directory>
>>
>> ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
>>
>> <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin">
>>    AllowOverride None
>>    Options Indexes ExecCGI
>>    Order allow,deny
>>    Allow from all
>> </Directory>
>>
>>
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