[Python-Dev] changing password at SF? (original) (raw)

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