[Mailman-Users] Add Security Features in PHP

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Wang, Mary Y <mary.y.wang at boeing.com> [20020815 20:14]: wrote:
> Hi Wash,
> 
> I am sorry that I didn't make it clear.  I have a web collaboration tool
> that is using the Mailman for the mailing list service.  Every user is
> required to log in in order to use the collaboration tool.  The security
> checking that I was talking about is to check user's person status against
> Boeing's internal database.  All this security/log in checking is written in
> php.  What I am saying is that I don't want any users access Mailman pages
> unless he/she is logged in.  I don't know really know how to program in
> Python yet.
> 
> Is there anyway that I can interface Mailman with PHP code?
> 

Hi Mary ,


Any chance that you can use a .htaccess on the mailman pages - that ht.access
authentication against Boeing's Internal DB?? Apache has got something called
mod_auth_* modules you can use with your Db, for example you can look at this:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_auth_dbm.html

as a start

just my US$ 0.02 ;-)



> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:wash at wananchi.com]
> Sent: 14 August, 2002 10:54 PM
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Add Security Features in PHP
> 
> 
> * Wang, Mary Y <mary.y.wang at boeing.com> [20020815 00:16]: wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is there anyway that Mailman can interface with PHP?  I have some php
> > security code that I would like to add for accessing the Mailman pages.
> 
> 
> Hi Mary,
> 
> What do you feel is lacking (so far) in terms of the security that mailman
> provides? Not that I am negating your question. I am still so new to mailman
> but I am also satisfied with the level of security that it gives so far, in
> terms of access to list admin, members list, archives. Well maybe for me I'm
> not anal about security but those seem enough to me.
> Maybe you should join the dev team and introduce new features ;-)
> 
> 
>         cheers
>        - wash 
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