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Subject: Re: master password
From: Christopher Lindsey <lindsey @ ncsa . uiuc . edu>
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 03:10:01 -0500 (CDT)
To: J . Goldberg @ cranfield . ac . uk
Cc: lindsey @ ncsa . uiuc . edu, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980528084714.534H-100000@arpad.thegreen.private> from "Jeffrey Goldberg" at May 28, 98 08:49:51 am

> > > Yes, there is something wrong with it.  This way the list manager of ANY
> > > list can see the master passwd.  Furthermore, they can change whether
> > > their list respects the master password.
> > 
> If you have either the admin password or the list.passwd for a list
> you can use the config command to majordomo to get a copy of your
> config.  You can also use newconfig to change your config.  The point
> of the admin and list.passwd is that they allow people to
> manipulate their configurations.

You're right, of course.  I had forgotten that I had taken that out
of our majordomo a while back -- to the point that I entirely forgot 
that majordomo could do that in most environments.

Please, unless you've removed the config/newconfig/writeconfig commands
from majordomo, don't do what I mentioned earlier!

And Jeffrey, thanks for catching me on this.  Sorry about the trouble.

Chris


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