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Subject: Re: R: Majordomo filenames used as passwords
From: John Ritchie (ritchiejOSSHE.EDU)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 09:48:05 CST

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Raistlin wrote:

> > This was reported TWICE, by two different people, in 1995. None of the
> posts
> > even got a reply. The bug has been confirmed on a live majordomo 1.94.3
> and
> > the code looks the same for 1.94.5 (the latest).
>
> I was unable to reproduce this behaviour on a Majordomo 1.94.4
>
> Did you actually test it out on a 1.94.5 ? If so, they have reintroduced a
> bug...
>
> Raistlin
>
>

I can reproduce this on 1.94.5.

It also appears that issuing the "passwd" command changes only the
password in the listname.passwd file, not the admin_passwd entry in the
listname.config file.

John Ritchie