[Mailman-Users] Using pre-existing passwords along with MailMan passwords?

Jorge Godoy godoy at conectiva.com
Mon Oct 22 19:54:00 CEST 2001


Jerry Stratton <jerry at sandiego.edu> writes:

> At our University, we use a special username/password (called a "UNet"
> account) for all web-related items. We can match the UNet username
> directly to the user's University e-mail address.

<snip />

It would be nice if Mailman used PAM to validate users. In this way,
we could have several different databases and check them until one
matches with the given username/password or not. 

This would allow people to use LDAP, DBM databases, shadow passwords,
biometric identification, etc. 

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Godoy. <godoy at conectiva.com>

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