[Python-Dev] changing password at SF?

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:51:32 -0600


    SM> (For those of you not involved with the python.org website, this has
    SM> immediate practical implications, because it appears one of the
    SM> python.org machines was broken into.)

    BAW> The machine that was hacked was an ancient Solaris machine that
    BAW> hosted the Ultraseek server, i.e. search.python.org.  I'm sure it
    BAW> was running an ancient version of sshd and Apache, but I doubt that
    BAW> that machine can be used to exploit other python.org machines.  

I suspect you're right (and, no, I didn't enter anything into the auth
form).  Still, this is as good an excuse as any to trot around changing
passwords. :-)

Skip