[Mailman-Users] ACK! Help! "Authentication Failed"

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "DM" == Dan Mick <dan.mick at west.sun.com> writes:

    >> Did crypt() or something change in Python 2.1?  I'd been
    >> running 2.0 / MailMan 2.0.3 before.  Most of these lists have
    >> existed since the pre-Mailman 2.0 days..

    DM> Maybe your old Python included crypt() and the new one
    DM> doesn't, in which case it's trying to fall back to md5, which
    DM> is failing on the old passwords?...

More likely, it's the other way 'round.  In Python 1.5.2 you had to
explicitly enable crypt, but in Python 2.1 crypt is automatically
enabled if the setup.py script can find the proper libraries.

Try adding this to mm_cfg.py and see if your lists start working
again:

USE_CRYPT = 0

-Barry