Mailman problem in F24and F25

[Beartooth]

	I'm not sure where I ought to post this; if there's still a 
Mailman list, it's not carried by Gmane. And even if there is, this may be 
a Fedora question.

	On my own domain (not Comcast) I've been running three lists under 
Mailman for a good many years and Fedora releases. Two of them are still 
fine.

	The third went into abeyance five years back. I want to resume it, 
or maybe start a replacement, with at least some of the former 
subscribers. But I never wrote the listowner password down, and of course 
I've forgotten it.

	I have both user access and root access to my domain, but no GUI, 
and the only way I've ever done anything with Mailman is through the GUI.

	Is there some way to use the CLI to find the list and set a dummy 
listowner password?

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Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

[Rick Stevens]

On 02/16/2017 09:19 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>  
>  	I'm not sure where I ought to post this; if there's still a 
>  Mailman list, it's not carried by Gmane. And even if there is, this may be 
>  a Fedora question.
>  
>  	On my own domain (not Comcast) I've been running three lists under 
>  Mailman for a good many years and Fedora releases. Two of them are still 
>  fine.
>  
>  	The third went into abeyance five years back. I want to resume it, 
>  or maybe start a replacement, with at least some of the former 
>  subscribers. But I never wrote the listowner password down, and of course 
>  I've forgotten it.
>  
>  	I have both user access and root access to my domain, but no GUI, 
>  and the only way I've ever done anything with Mailman is through the GUI.
>  
>  	Is there some way to use the CLI to find the list and set a dummy 
>  listowner password? 
Not sure. Mailman is still supported by Gnu:

	https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/

There seems to be a wiki for it and they claim a mailing list for
it is still at Gmane, although a lot of gmane seems to be broken at the
moment. Look at:

	https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/contact.html

for contact info. I know the group is also fairly active on IRC on
the "#mailman" channel. You can find documentation for V3.0 at:

	http://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/release-3.0/

Not a lot of help, I know.
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[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:19:52 +0000 (UTC)
Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:

>  	I'm not sure where I ought to post this; if there's still a
>
>  Mailman list, it's not carried by Gmane. And even if there is, this
>  may be a Fedora question.
>  
>  	On my own domain (not Comcast) I've been running three lists
>  under Mailman for a good many years and Fedora releases. Two of them
>  are still fine.
>  
>  	The third went into abeyance five years back. I want to
>  resume it, or maybe start a replacement, with at least some of the
>  former subscribers. But I never wrote the listowner password down,
>  and of course I've forgotten it.
>  
>  	I have both user access and root access to my domain, but no
>  GUI, and the only way I've ever done anything with Mailman is through
>  the GUI.
>  
>  	Is there some way to use the CLI to find the list and set a
>  dummy listowner password? 
If you are using the Fedora mailman package, you will want to run: 

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass

(or if not, I guess wherever mmsitepass ends up). 

That lets you set the site password, and that should work in most any
place it asks for a list admin password. 

Hope that helps 

kevin

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 10:11:17 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
	[....]
> > 	Is there some way to use the CLI to find the list and set a
> > dummy listowner password?
>  
>  If you are using the Fedora mailman package, you will want to run:
>  
>  /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass
>  
>  (or if not, I guess wherever mmsitepass ends up).
>  
>  That lets you set the site password, and that should work in most any
>  place it asks for a list admin password. 
	That worked to perfection. Many, many thanks!

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Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.