Turn off those password reminders.

Posted by toma on January 23, 2010; This entry is filed under English.
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If you are a mailman admin of any KDE mailing list, please consider turning off the monthly password reminders. Sending passwords in plain text is a bad idea to start with, doing it regularly without reason is even worse…

Login into the admin, go to the ‘General Options’, half way down there is a section ‘Notifications’, where the option is for the monthly password reminders.

It’s the default for new lists KDE sysadmin creates, but there are still a few mailing lists which have that bit set. If you need help, ping me on irc or file a sysadmin bugreport, the address is in the footer of bugs.kde.org.

5 Comments

  1. jstaniek January 23rd, 2010 at 23:29

    I’d like to add that to change this setting for more than one list, one can do that in one go by checking “Set globally” checkbox on, near the “Get password reminder email for this list?” option.

  2. Dotan Cohen January 24th, 2010 at 08:24

    Why are those passwords even _stored_ in plaintext?

  3. Stefan ANICA January 24th, 2010 at 10:09

    I also think this is a good ideea.

  4. Mark Ziegler January 24th, 2010 at 11:09

    I absolutly agree. Please turn it off for all lists. Unfortunately I admin only one list :-(

  5. Thomas Olsen January 28th, 2010 at 10:30

    But for some lists a monthly reminder of etiquette and topic of the list would be useful ;-)