Setting mailman user passwords

Been doing so stuff using a bunch of email addresses that are handled by scripts to customise various mailman behaviour - in particular a script that does a subscribe via email command, then reads the result and then mails the user to determine if they are already on the list or not.

However, to do this we needed to set all the users up with a pre-determined password, but the initial listing of mailing list recipients was done using the mass subscription which generates random passwords.

Some hunting on the internet didn't yield anything for resetting them - they could be seen using

/var/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists//config.pck | less

but nothing poped out about changing them - then I looked in the bin directory and found reset_pw.py.

This is intented to be used to reset the passwords to new random ones - but a little edit to the script and you can use it to set the password to whatever you want running it with:

withlist -l -r reset_pw -v