[Mailman-Users] Can I enforce secure admin passwords?

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Wed Jun 3 03:45:21 CEST 2009


Kirke Johnson wrote:

>I am concerned that list owners can put insecure admin passwords on 
>their lists. My testing suggests that short passwords are accepted as 
>well as alpha-only. The only control I have found is the length of 
>admin passwords generated by Mailman. I have not located anything 
>else that would enforce even minimal password security.
>
>Am I missing something here?


No. There are no controls in Mailman governing what is or isn't an
acceptable password.

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