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[Savannah-hackers] Re: a dummy project to help create accounts
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loic |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: a dummy project to help create accounts |
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Wed, 16 May 2001 10:48:14 +0200 |
> First, let me clarify the difference between having a savannah account
> and having a subversions account. Having a savannah account means
> that you can log into to the web interface. Having a subversions
> account means that you have a line in /etc/passwd, a home directory,
> etc.
>
> Someone can indeed have a savannah account and be in no projects.
> subversions accounts are only created for savannah accounts which are
> in at least one project.
>
> sysadmin.texi currently recommends that account-creation volunteers copy
> SSH keys from the home directory on subversions. However, this is only
> possible if the user has been added to at least one project, and it also
> requires the account-creation volunteer to have root on subversions.
>
> I'll soon be updating sysadmin.texi to recommend getting the SSH keys
> from /subversions/sourceforge/dumps/accounts.txt, which neither
> requires root access, nor that the user has been added to a project.
> Note that this file is only updated once per day.
I confirm all this.
> > When all this gets worked out, please document this in detail in
> > sysadmin.texi.
>
> Will do.
There should also be a pointer to the part of the
savannah.gnu.org/savannah.html that explains some points related to
account management, I think.
Cheers,
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