[Distutils] [distutils] make the storage of the password optional in .pypirc

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Sun Jan 4 14:40:28 CET 2009


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Tarek Ziadé wrote:

> I would like to make the storage of the password optional in .pypirc.
> If unstored, the register command would prompt for it.
> 
> More details here:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue4394
> 
> Any thaught or objection on this ?

+1.  Storing plaintext passwords on disk is just wrong.


Tres.
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