Bug#36063: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#36063: Mailman newlist should can read passwd from stdin noninteractive

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:02 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> reassign 36063 mailman
> thanks
> 
> python2.4 offers the getpass module:
> 
> \begin{funcdesc}{getpass}{\optional{prompt}}

> python2.5:
> 
> \begin{funcdesc}{getpass}{\optional{prompt\optional{, stream}}}

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Mailman uses this of
course, as the original bug submitter rightfully indicates. The problem
is that there's no easy way to noninteractively pass in a password when
using that function.

I agreee with Ian's original assertion that Python might be a good place
to fix this, since it would then solve the same problem for every script
using it.

Or am I missing something?


Thijs
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