[Mailman-Users] Using mailman usernames and passwords as apache2auth

[Mark Sapiro]

The Doctor What wrote:
>
>Is there a way to have apache2 Auth* directives query username and
>password from mailman?
>
>I was imagining something like:
>
><Location /foo>
>   AuthType Basic
>   AuthName "Some service"
>   AuthMailManList FooList
>   require valid-user
></Location>


I doubt it is that simple, but I don't know very much about Apache.

>  but
>  mailman *has* all this code and the database of users is nearly
>  the same, if not the same.  So why write duplicate code to
>  duplicate the data!

The MailList object has an attribute 'passwords' which is a dictionary
with member's e-mail address as key and plain text password as data,
or given any membership database, the MemberAdaptor has a
getMemberPassword(member) method which returns the password for member.

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