-We recognize that the current mmblanche implementation is not a permanent solution to command- line administration of Mailman lists. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, mmblanche uses the administrator password of the list for authentication. It should instead use tickets to authenticate via the same mechanism as the current web certs interface. Secondly, the existing mmblanche scrapes the web server to execute commands and query lists, resulting in unnecessary load and inefficiency. Both issues could be overcome relatively easily by configuring the Mailman web server to allow SPNEGO authentication, and adding to the Mailman sources an additional web interface which accepts blanche-style commands and executes them using the same backend as the existing web interface.
+ We recognize that the current mmblanche implementation is not a permanent solution to command- line administration of Mailman lists. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, mmblanche uses the administrator password of the list for authentication. It should instead use tickets to authenticate via the same mechanism as the current web certs interface. Secondly, the existing mmblanche scrapes the web server to execute commands and query lists, resulting in unnecessary load and inefficiency. Both issues could be overcome relatively easily by configuring the Mailman web server to allow SPNEGO authentication, and adding to the Mailman sources an additional web interface which accepts blanche-style commands and executes them using the same backend as the existing web interface.