[Mailman-Users] Can you set a list's password via the command line?

[Mark T. Valites]

I replied off the list last to to a similar post.  When I moved my ~475 
lists, I hit the same problem.
What I ended up doing was:

foreach list in lists
do
	dumpdb $list/config.db | grep admin_password_line | some awk (to 
rip out the password column) | some sed (to get rid of some funky 
characters) > $listname_file
done

foreach list in lists
do
	config_list -i $listname_file
done

This worked fairly well.  40 or so out of the ~475 at the time didn't 
take & I had to manually fix the files, or just reset the passwords.  It 
wasn't that hard, and I just did it all from the shell prompt, but I 
might be able to dig it up if you really need me to.

I am of course, interested in a more *proper* way of doing this.

On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 09:43 PM, James Madill wrote:

>
> In moving the 175 mailing lists from one machine (version 2.0.1)  to 
> another (version 2.0.8), all of the list passwords are no longer 
> working.
>
> Is there a way to set a list's password via the command line?  I'd hate 
> to have to manually set each one & send it to the list admin(s).
>
> -- James
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