On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, List Manager wrote:
>FYI: Until I had gotten the ipchains properly configured on
>listman.redhat.com, I was blocking direct external access of any kind to
>listman.redhat.com (with the exception of the email processing of
>course). Now that everything is in place, I've opened up the external
>access to Mailman for list members to view and configure their personal
>options. You'll need to know your list password in order to take
>advantage of this feature. But you can tell the system to email you
>your personal password (if you don't know what the random password is
>set to). So please visit:
>
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list/
>
>Please note, only secure web access is permitted. Please let me know if
>you have any problems using the above URL.
>
>Additionally, I was curious how people feel about the monthly mailing of
>the personal passwords. would you like to have your subscriber
>passwords sent out to you once a month? There's always the option of
>having it emailed on request from the above mentioned URL. Thanks for
>your feedback.
Everything sounds great except the emailing out of
passwords. Emailing passwords out is insecure. If having
passwords is important, then making sure that nobody sees them is
as well. I don't want someone pulling a practical joke on me
after seeing the password over my shoulder once a month..
Just my opinion of course... As long as someone can recover
their password off the web interface, then that should be good
enough I think.
Another thing to think about is that many of us will likely use
email to manage our lists like we have been all along. In this
case we don't need a password (or do we now?), so mailing it to
us is needless and only increases the chance of foulplay. Most
people I've met are careless with passwords. All it takes is one
or two incidents to cause trouble...
What does everyone else think about it?
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