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

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Thu Jun 4 01:51:59 CEST 2009


Grant Taylor wrote:

>On 6/3/2009 4:33 PM, Kirke Johnson wrote:
>> What is bothering me is list owners who want to use their initials or 
>> the list name as list owner passwords. I feel like kind of a sitting 
>> duck when we can't see the passwords they have chosen and have no way to 
>> enforce decent choices.
>
>It should be a lot easier to test to see if the password (clear text or 
>encrypted) matches known values as compared to testing to see if it's an 
>other wise good password.  (No dictionary is needed to check against.)


What known values? List name, yes, but the list owner's name, initials,
whatever are not known to Mailman - only her email address.

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