At 06:26 AM 8/25/2010 +0200, Attila Oláh wrote:

I know it doesn't make sense to put a password on the site that hosts distribute/setuptools, but we have a private PyPI and we'd like to use that as --download-base too.

The goal of ez_setup is to be small, so every feature added is a tradeoff. In this particular case, it seems like the simplest fix is to pass the URL of a non-password-protected setuptools to ez_setup, and then use your password-protected PyPI afterwards.