[Mailman-Users] authentication problem on upgrade

[Matthew Davis]

* Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist (dave at umiacs.umd.edu) wrote:
> I'm going from 2.0.13 to 2.1.1. The machine I want to first test it on
> has no compiler so I copy the real mailman structures onto another machine,
> (let's call it "test.domain") have account, group, perms etc set up,
[snip]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/etc/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
>     main()
>   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 82, in main
>     cgidata.getvalue('adminpw', '')):
>   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 219, in WebAuthenticate
>     print self.MakeCookie(ac, user)
>   File "/etc/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 234, in MakeCookie
>     c = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> AttributeError: 'Mailman.Cookie' module has no attribute 'SimpleCookie'
> 
> Any ideas?

Try cleaning out the cookies on the client machine.  There have been
problems with old 2.0.13 cookies interfearing with 2.1 cookies.

Just an idea, see if that works.

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