[savannah-help-public] [sr #108727] Confusing message in "My Account Conf" about SSH shared key

[Gavin D. Smith]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?108727>

                 Summary: Confusing message in "My Account Conf" about SSH
shared key
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: gavin
            Submitted on: Sat 17 Jan 2015 05:11:08 PM GMT
                Category: Source code repositories - developer access
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
        Originator Email: address@hidden
        Operating System: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I was trying to checkout a CVS repository for read-write access. I saw on the
"My Account Conf" page a message that said "Your Savannah password is useless
for cvs, rsync, scp and sftp. You have to register a SSH Shared key for those
purposes." This was underneath a link that said "Edit the 1 SSH Public Key
registered".

Because I am not familiar with the ins and outs of SSH, I thought that an "SSH
Shared key" and an "SSH Public Key" were different things. The message was in
bold text so I assumed it was warning me that what I had uploaded wasn't good
enough. Eventually though, I managed to checkout the CVS repository in
question read-write without doing anything more with the SSH keys I had
uploaded.




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