Re: [Savannah-hackers] unexpected password change for address@hidden

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> I talked to Rob Savoye on the telephone and we figured out some
> things.
>
> Rob administrates the bug-dejagnu, dejagnu, and dejagnu-commit lists,
> and I moderate them.  My password to these lists stopped working,  
> too.
>
> It turns out that Rob and I were using different passwords.
> Rob just reset the moderator password on bug-dejagnu, dejagnu,
> dejagnu-commit, and the new password works for me.
>
> So I suspect that the *old* password that I was using to moderate
> several mailing lists was probably a master password (!).  And I
> suspect that some mailing lists also use this password as a per- 
> mailing-list password, and some don't.

The master password in Mailman is the one of a mailing-list with a  
special name. So I doubt it has any side-effect on other mailing-lists.

I did not understand what conclusion you reached concerning this issue.  
Could you explain a bit more (sorry if I do not see the obvious  
points)?

> This still leaves the address@hidden mailing list high and dry.
> I need someone to reset the administrator and moderator passwords
> on that list.  And I need some way to authenticate myself to you
> to do that.

I just sent you a confirmation e-mail.
I beg to suggest you create a GPG key and publish it to several public  
key servers (such as pgp.mit.edu) as well as to your Savannah account,  
as it really eases this kind of problems.

--
Sylvain