Question

I have a mailing list system (LISTSERV) with several hundred lists and I want to set up a TWiki web for each list. For each web I want only the subscribers of the related list to be able to create and contribute to topics.

Within LISTSERV, each subscriber already has a login account consisting of their email address and password, stored in LISTSERVs signup files. List details (ie: which subscriber is on which list) are stored in another file.

How would I approach integrating the mailing list login with the TWiki one, so that subscribers don't have to register accounts with TWiki and can just use their LISTSERV one?

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-- TWikiGuest - 27 Feb 2007

Answer

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You would need to create a new password manager. TWiki ships with two:

1. TWiki::Users::HtPasswdUser - handles 'htpasswd' format files, with passwords encoded as per the HtpasswdEncoding
2. TWiki::Users::ApacheHtpasswdUser - should behave identically to HtpasswdUser, but uses the CPAN:Apache::Htpasswd package to interact with Apache. It is shipped mainly as a demonstration of how to write a new password manager.

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Feb 2007