Re: [Savannah-hackers] Help needed [Newbie]

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:52:43PM +0200, Sylvain NAHAS wrote:

> I have to "register a CVS/SSH Shared key to be able to retrieve a cvs
> tree for read/write operations". Very well. So I follow the instructions
> and go to the form.
> And there is an "edit form" where I it is said I have to give my key.
> But, HOW do I put it ?
> 
> I mean, which editor can I use to copy from and paste ? I can't just do
> it from the result of a cat, because there is caracters that aren't
> correctly printed... and so vith (g)vim, less, emacs ...

You might be looking at your private key and not to your public key. The
public key should have only simple ASCII characters. For instance, in my case
 cat ~/.ssh/identity.pub
shows 4 lines of numbers, followed by my e-mail address.

Hope this helps.
Jaime