Ronnie-

What about having a script use the TCPGUI  interface to get a ticket for 
the user, and then passing it back to their browser? you can keep their 
passwords in a hidden file someplace.

I'm actually working on something similar here: authenticating users 
against our LDAP server, getting a ticket from listserv via TCPGUI and 
passing the results back.

-Chris

Ronnie Streff wrote:
> Public may be the way I have to go. I'm new to this software, so I'm not
> sure if there are reasons I shouldn't.
>
> I'm not wanting to bypass the login, I'm trying to automate it so that
> they don't have to key it in (or even know it) themselves. They
> currently log in to our members only area using a last name and a member
> number, the log in for the list being different would require them to
> use some brain power they don't have in excess. 
>
> E-mail searching would be way beyond their ability. (I've been called a
> moron for asking which of our 6 lists they want to be removed from when
> they indicate "the list"--I'm supposed to be able to read their feeble
> minds.)
>
> Ronnie Streff
> Communications & Technology Specialist
> American Medical Writers Association
> 40 West Gude Drive Suite 101
> Rockville,  MD  20850-1192
> 301.294.5303 / 301.294.9006 fax
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>
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> October 11-13, 2007
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> A Legacy of Leadership
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Winship
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: auto sign in from Web site
>
> Ronnie Streff wrote:
>   
>> My members are technically illiterate and they may be able to write
>>     
> but
>   
>> they can not read instructions. I currently subscribe them from my
>> database software and control their subscriptions to 6 different
>>     
> lists.
>
> Since when have list subscribers read the simple instructions, in email
> or on websites?
>
> Since you want to bybass the login I assume your archives are private.
> You could make them public so there would be no need to log in, and no
> password requirement (or they could search via email, which requires no
> password from a subscribed address, if they could read instructions that
> is.)
>
> I don't know if you can bypass the requirement for private lists that
> there must be
> 1. a subscription to the list for the address
> 2. a password registered with the host site for that address
>
> Any reason not to save yourself a lot of trouble and just make your
> archives public, so the subscribers won't have to actually read
> instructions?
>
> Douglas Winship  [log in to unmask]
>   

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