On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Ranti Junus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you, Eric, for the heads up and your guardianships...
>
> Mailman is easy to administer, but it has a huge caveat: when a user
> request a password (reminder, etc.), it sends it as an email in plain text.


Yikes!

However, this is no longer true in mailman 3 (if heavily-developed-alpha is
an okay answer); passwords are sha512-hashed and *maybe* also salted,
though the docs are sparse on that front.

(See, e.g.,
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/3.0/view/head:/src/mailman/utilities/passwords.py
,
https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/3.0/view/head:/src/mailman/config/passlib.cfg
,
https://pythonhosted.org/passlib/lib/passlib.context.html#passlib.context.CryptContext.encrypt
.)

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