I think that David's plan is considerably better.  The key is the access to
the over-ride keys.



On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:08 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote:

> >
> > The above makes a really nice, security-conscious scheme
> > that I would love to champion among various PMCs
> > and suggest that we document it as part of our social
> > media guidelines. The only open question in my mind
> > is who (and by extension what email address) should
> > the master ASFxxx account be associated with. I see
> > two alternatives here:
> >     * ASF Infra team collectively owns it
> >     * Whoever controls @TheASF owns it
> >
>
> Neither IMO.
> Infra doesn't want it (and we will politely decline if asked to manage
> your social media creds). And burdening Sally, Jim, Joe, etc with
> scores of projects credentials isn't going to scale well.
>
> If I were to define it, Make the address for the account
> private@$foo.a.o (CloudStack uses an alias that forwards to
> private@cs.a.o IIRC) I would say turn on MFA for the account  (device
> held by the chair or his designee) keep the override codes encrypted
> to multiple PMC members in the projects private svn tree (and open to
> add more PMC members at their request). That gives the PMC the ability
> to override if someone disappears or goes off the tracks. Federating
> access is easy with Tweetdeck or Hootsuite - securing the account
> becomes a lot easier as well.
>
> --David
>
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