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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:27:41 -0400, Randy Klumph <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>In the old days, user passwords were visible in the log files and could be
>retrieved. Now they are [redacted]. I seem to recall that it was mentioned
>that the password could be still retrieved by the site administrator but
>the details are fuzzy.
I agree with Valdis, just because you can retreive the password, doesn't mean
you should. I can think of only 2 instances in 14 years of working with
LISTSERV that this was actually necessary to what I was trying to do. Simply
register a new password (or better still, assist the user to do so themselves)
to replace the old one.
That said, a LISTSERV Site Maintainer may issue the following commands:
PWC Q user@address PW=xxxxxxxx query a password
PWC DEL user@address PW=xxxxxxxx delete a password
PWC ADD user@address yyyyyyy PW=xxxxxxxx set a password for a user
where xxxxxxxx is the Site Maintainer's personal LISTSERV password
where yyyyyyyy is the password you want to set for user@address
See Chap 6 of the LISTSERV Site Administrator's Manual for more info.
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