[Catalog-sig] Mandatory Reset of PyPI Passwords

Noah Kantrowitz noah at coderanger.net
Tue Feb 12 22:08:58 CET 2013


If this is going to be system wide we should check against and/or reset roundup and any local passwords and dinsdale and albatross.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob at jacobian.org> wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Donald Stufft
><donald.stufft at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since the wiki.python.org database was likely compromised and it was
>using a
>> weak
>> hash we should probably assume that all passwords in there have been
>leaked.
>> Because
>> of this I want to formally propose that PyPI reset it's passwords.
>
>I agree -- please do, sooner rather than later.
>
>If I was the Benevolent Ops Person for PyPI I would reset them
>immediately and deal with the fallout. But I'm not the one who'd get
>angry emails, so any amount of grace period that Richard/MvL/etc won't
>get any argument from me.
>
>Jacob
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