[balug-admin] Who does/doesn't have the listadmin password, misc. contact information, etc.

Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
Thu Jun 15 10:12:27 PDT 2006


Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):

> Yes, probably good to change it at least once in a while (like if it
> gets leaked/exposed, or someone ceases to be a listadmin, or probably
> at least quarterly if any usage forces it to go across the network in
> cleartext, and probably at least yearly at a minimum in any case).

I used to worry about this more than I do now.  Quite a bit of mischief
_can_ be done by too many people holding listadmin passwords (including
summary deletion of the entire mailing list from its Web admin
interface), but in practice it tends not to happen.




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