[python-committers] Security: please enable 2-factor authentication on GitHub and your email

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017, 05:07 M.-A. Lemburg, <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> I'm with David on this one. 2FA is good for admin accounts, but
> doesn't add much protection for regular committers. Think of what
> you're trying to protect against: git checkins are all audited and
> can easily be undone.
>

But David has an admin account for the repo. 😉 Anyway, it sounds like
we're not going to force this in anyone, but perhaps it might be worth
considering for admin accounts since they control whether force pushes are
possible.

-brett


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