Whoops, the try block only needs to go around the one line that

can throw that error.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/cgi/admin b/cgi/admin
index 44505dcaf..e9a096933 100755
--- a/cgi/admin
+++ b/cgi/admin
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 To run stand-alone for debugging, set env var PATH_INFO to name of list
 and, optionally, options category."""
 
-__version__ = "$Revision: 686 $"
+__version__ = "$Revision: 687 $"
 
 import sys
 import os, cgi, string, crypt, types, time
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ def isAuthenticated(list, password=None, SECRET="SECRET"):
         if c.has_key(list_name + "-admin"):
 	    try:
                inp = base64.decodestring(c[list_name + "-admin"].value)
-               check = md5.new(SECRET+list_name+SECRET).digest()
             except Error:  # the decodestring may return incorrect padding?
                return 0
+            check = md5.new(SECRET+list_name+SECRET).digest()
             if inp == check:
                 return 1
             else: