Dear All, I'm using setuptool module to pack my software and I'd like to distribute it via PyPI, making it installable exploiting easy_install. I have a requirement, though, that I'm not sure is supported by setuptools: My software must be distributed to registered/authenticated/authorized users only. Well, registering the packages I might specify that the download URL is a CGI, optionally with Basic Authentication accepting a default user and password as described here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#id17 This would provides me with the possibility of tracking the number of downloads, but always with a single public user/password. But I need to know who is downloading my packages. Is there a way to associate a user and password to easy_install command? Such data would be nice if passed as Basic Authentication data to the download URL... Thanks in advance. Luigi