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Subject: Re: majordomo thinks admin password is the approve password?
From: Tina Tindall <tinat @ wsu . edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 07:53:54 -0700
To: morna findlay <morna @ cogsci . ed . ac . uk>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <l0310280db1a598adea2c@[129.215.174.142]>

At 03:26 PM 6/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
>Hi all - can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
>When I send a requets to majordomo like:
>
>approve blobtest.pass subscribe blobtest fred@blobs
>
>I get an error back telling me I'm not using the right password - note I
>have used the approve_passwd.

subscribe is an administrative task though so you need to use the
admin_password.  approve_passwd (I believe) is simply the password needed
to APPROVE a post to be sent to the list (either moderated or bypassing
anything that might stop it in the resend, i.e., the word h*lp).

>If I sent the same command, using the admin_passwd - it works fine:
>
>Have I misunderstood what the admin and approve passwords are for?

Yeppers, see above!

- Tina



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