[Mailman-Users] No passwords for members?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "CL" == Christopher Lindsey <lindsey at ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:

    CL> I could've sworn that this was addressed on the list already,
    CL> but I can't seem to find the message about it...  So here I go
    CL> (again?)

    CL> Anyhow, I recently converted a SmartList list to Mailman via
    CL> the add_members script, but now I'm getting this error message
    CL> for all of the users who try accessing their password:

    CL>    Mailman noticed in .MailUserPassword() that:

    |       User: 'xxxxxxxxxx at aol.com'
    |       List: rose-list

    CL>    lacks a password.  Please notify the Mailman system manager
    CL> at this site!
 
    CL> So what can I do about it?  There's no option to
    CL> default/recreate a password for the user...  Do I need to go
    CL> through and manually subscribe each person <shudder>...

    CL> The other interesting that I noticed is that some of the
    CL> addresses had the 'plain' option unchecked, regardless of
    CL> whether or not they were receiving mail in digest form.

The user probably has a password, so you shouldn't need to recreate
one.  There was a bug in 1.0b9 that caused this error message to occur 
when the case-preserved user's address had upper case letters in it.
This will be fixed in the next release.  A patch against 1.0b9 is
attached.

-Barry

Index: Deliverer.py
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/mailman/Mailman/Deliverer.py,v
retrieving revision 1.50
retrieving revision 1.53
diff -c -r1.50 -r1.53
*** Deliverer.py	1999/01/13 23:53:16	1.50
--- Deliverer.py	1999/03/09 02:24:03	1.53
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*** 247,253 ****
      def MailUserPassword(self, user):
          listfullname = '%s@%s' % (self.real_name, self.host_name)
          ok = 1
!         if self.passwords.has_key(user):
              recipient = self.GetMemberAdminEmail(user)
              subj = '%s maillist reminder\n' % listfullname
              # get the text from the template
--- 245,255 ----
      def MailUserPassword(self, user):
          listfullname = '%s@%s' % (self.real_name, self.host_name)
          ok = 1
!         # find the case-preserved version of the user's address
!         cpuser = self.members.get(self.FindUser(user))
!         if type(cpuser) == type(''):
!             user = cpuser
!         if user and self.passwords.has_key(user):
              recipient = self.GetMemberAdminEmail(user)
              subj = '%s maillist reminder\n' % listfullname
              # get the text from the template