[Mailman-Users] Resetting admin password

[Mark Sapiro]

Joshua Beall wrote:
>
>I have a WHM/Cpanel server that with Mailman 2.1.5 installed (and running 
>fine, up until now).
>
>However, I have been trying to using cpanel's 'reset list admin password' 
>feature to reset the admin password for one of my list, and it's not 
>working.  I know I'm not mistyping it, because I've repeatedly tried copying 
>and pasting the same password into the "change admin password to" field in 
>cpanel, and then subsequently into the admin password field when attempting 
>to login to the web admin tool for Mailman.
>
>Cpanel always reports success when resetting the password, but it is not 
>working.

Have you seen
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.011.htp

>I am wondering what my other options for resetting this password are?  Not 
>everybody has cpanel installed - what is the "normal" way to reset a lost 
>admin password for Mailman?


Go to http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/<listname>/passwords and log
in with the site password, or use

bin/change_pw

and if you don't know the site password, use

bin/mmsitepass

to set a new one. The site password isn't required for change_pw, only
for the web interface.

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