Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman passwords

2009-05-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 9, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: - Depending on the security situation of your laptop/desktop/..., most browsers allow you to let them remember the password for you. So you have to really enter it only the first time. Everyone who is concerned about security should be ver

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman passwords

2009-05-09 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
Hi! On Sam, 2009-05-09 at 12:51 -0700, bob 001 wrote: [...] > Do we have any setting where we can set maximum retries for wrong > password before it locks the account or something like that? > > isn't it otherwise easily breakable via bots by trying different > passwords to the same web url. Eas

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman passwords

2009-05-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
bob 001 wrote: > >Do we have any setting where we can set maximum retries for wrong >password before it locks the account or something like that? No >isn't it otherwise easily breakable via bots by trying different >passwords to the same web url. It depends on the strength of the password. Co

[Mailman-Users] mailman passwords

2009-05-09 Thread bob 001
Hi there, Do we have any setting where we can set maximum retries for wrong password before it locks the account or something like that? isn't it otherwise easily breakable via bots by trying different passwords to the same web url. How'z experts here controlling this piece of security? -- TIA

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman passwords

2002-10-16 Thread Jon Carnes
There are three types of passwords: - User password, this is simply the password for the mailman user on your server, it lets you login as the user "mailman", all of Mailman's processes run as this user. To change this password, login as root and run: passwd mailman - Mailman Site passwor