Re: [Savannah-hackers] rattaching mailing list to savannah

[Loic Dachary]

Guillaume Morin writes:
 > Dans un message du 01 Mar à 22:19, Mark H. Weaver écrivait :
 > > Hmm.  Would this admin password would go over in cleartext?  If so, I'd
 > > prefer to see you use ssh.
 > 
 > Well, I have nothing against that. But, I planned to install this cgi
 > just as other Mailman cgi. So it will have the same security measures as
 > other Mailman cgi. If you look at
 > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/admin/autoconf-patches for example, you'll
 > see that the admin password is sent as clear text.
 > 
 > So maybe, it is not necessary to protect only this operation...

 I agree. Clear text password is not good but if it's common practice for
mailman at present it's probably not a good idea to try to change this now. 

 Is there a mailman patch or some guidelines to deal with this issue ?

 Cheers,

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