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[David Carter <address@concealed>]

On 29/08/2022 21:13, Amos wrote:
> |Is it possible to add a privileged owner via CLI?  I don't see the 
> option, but I'm not sure if I'm overlooking it. |

Sympa 6.2.68 now has "sympa.pl add --role=owner", however I agree that 
this can only add normal rather than privileged owners.

I am not sure if this was deliberate: when you bulk add a single person 
to lots of lists you normally want to add them as a privileged owner.

The alternative and old fashioned way to do this was to combine:

sympa --dump_users    --role owner
sympa --restore_users --role owner

I attach a small wrapper script which you can run as either root or the 
sympa user (using "sudo -u sympa <script>"). You will want to adjust the 
following:

my $LIST_DATA="/var/lib/sympa/list_data";
my $domain="lists.cam.ac.uk";

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Attachment: sympa_add_owner.pl
Description: Perl program