Re: RE: [Exuserfolder-users] Mailman based authentication?

First off, Trevor, Thank you for passing this along.

Secondly,
Barry, Thank you for the guidance.  I will show this to the guys I'm=20
working with- and if they decide to have me do it, I'll be sure to post=20=

my results to both of these lists.

Third, Dario,
Sounds like you have a very cool solution cooking as well- exUsers to=20
manage mailman users, instead of the opposite- exUsers working off=20
mailman- (what I'm trying to do).  I would love to see what comes of=20
this from your end-
--

Is there some place where we can post all of this, in some related=20
fashon?  Mabye create some shared Zope.org wiki or something?

Rocket all-
.ike




On Tuesday, March 26, 2002, at 02:36 AM, Dario Lopez-K=E4sten wrote:

> Try 2:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trevor Toenjes" <[email protected]>
> To: "Isaac Levy" <[email protected]>; "Zmailman List"
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:04 PM
> Subject: [ZMailman] RE: [Exuserfolder-users] Mailman based=20
> authentication?
>
>
>> I have forwarded this to the zMailman list for comments.
>> This is an interesting requirement.
>> Cheers,
>> Trevor
>
> Hello!
>
> I have at some time promised to look into this issue - the idea was to=20=

> have
> exuserfolder manage authentication for mailman lists, in order to =
avoid
> duplication of user-databases (as in: it is better to manage one user =
db
> than many user dbs with the same users).
>
> The time frame I gave around january was to start looking into it =
around
> this time of year, giving completion of current projects. So, I will=20=

> start
> looking into it - I *might* even be able to invest some normal =
worktime=20
> for
> this, since we could use this product in our own environment.
>
> If anyone else is interested in investing time and effort into this, =
it
> would be nice if we could work together. Probably the best way to=20
> start a
> thing like this would be to study the Zmailman product that allready=20=

> exists.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> /dario
>
> - --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Lopez-K=E4sten     Systems Developer  Chalmers Univ. of =
Technology
> [email protected]  ICQ will yield no hits    IT Systems & Services
>
>
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
>>> Isaac Levy
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:53 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [Exuserfolder-users] Mailman based authentication?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hey there all,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a way to authenticate users in a directory based on
>>> their mailman email:password combo-
>>> I know this is a bit backwards, but the mailman user data is =
aleready
>>> there- and I want to simply provide a secure area for the list=20
>>> members-
>>> without new passwords etc...
>>>
>>> I understand that mailman and Zope have some strong ties through=20
>>> python,
>>> but am worndering if anyone has created an authentication method =
based
>>> on mailman?
>>>
>>> Also, I have no idea where mailman stores the password data- or how =
to
>>> create a way for exUsers to authenticate.
>>>
>>> Any advice, URL's, or info would be most appreciated-
>>> If I get it working well, I'll be sure to post a how-to on the Zope
>>> site, and notify this list-
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> .ike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Isaac Levy
>>> + Office of Structured Systems
>>>    http://structuredsystems.net
>>>
>>>
>
>
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