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

[Stephen Emslie]

Brilliant.


A bit OT, but from your blog post on the subject:

>I'd like to go further and to think about a ssh-agent like system, so there's no need
>to enter the pasword everytime you work with PyPI in the same session.

Have you had any feedback on this yet?


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any thaught or objection on this ?
>>>
>>> +1.  Storing plaintext passwords on disk is just wrong.
>
> This is done and available in trunk and 3.1,
>
> I will also backport that feature in the collective.dist package,
> which provides distutils new features for Python 2.4->2.6
>
> Tarek
>
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