On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Christopher Adams wrote:
> Using the archives for this list, I found a message about setting up a
> master password so that an administrator can easily work with all the
> lists. I assumed that this meant that I could keep all the individual
> passwords for each list and just link them all to a single password. So,
> I tried the shell script mentioned and it seemed to work. However, I soon
> discovered that it when it set hard links to all my 140 list password
> files, it also changed them all to the master password.
What did you EXPECT a link to do? It turns them all into names for the
same file.
The "master password" idea is this:
- per-list passwords go in the approve_passwd and admin_passwd fields
in the .config file
- global "override" password is available because the master password is
in the linked .passwd files
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