[Mailman-Users] authentication problem on upgrade

[Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Matthew Davis wrote:

> * 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.
>

Sounds like a good idea. How is this done? I presume you're not talking
about the subscribers cookies in ~/.netscape/cookie. I see
$PREFIX/Mailman/Cookie.py
$PREFIX/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py
Do these need to be modified or do they access some DBfile?



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