[Distutils] "Please use a mix of different-case letters and numbers in your password"

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Wed Sep 4 12:11:31 CEST 2013


On Sep 4, 2013, at 4:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On PyPI:
> "Please use a mix of different-case letters and numbers in your password"
> 
> Ok... has anyone decided to play BOFH on this one?
> 
> Displaying recommendations is fine (and, why not, some kind of entropy
> meter), enforcing stupid rules like that is not.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine, trying to access his PyPI account...
> 
> 
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Use a better password, unless I misunderstand and you're getting this error trying to login?

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Donald Stufft
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