Re: [Savannah-hackers] Forgotten password

[Rudy Gevaert]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:51:34PM +0530, dhruva wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 05:07:19 -0400, "Rudy Gevaert" <address@hidden> said:
> > Can you send me a gpg signed message?
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:21:00PM +0530, dhruva wrote:
> > > Hello Hackers,
> > >  I have a rather strange problem. I had created an account at Savannah
> > >  with the user ID 'dky'. I had given an email address 'address@hidden'.
> > >  I have now forgotten my password and the email account is defunct. For
> > >  strange reasons, I just cannot access my mail account. I have mailed the
> > >  Systems Administrator/host (Robin Socha ... www.socha.net) and have got
> > >  no help so far.
> 
> ....[snip]
> 
> Hello Rudy,
>  I got help from Robin Socha. He reset my old email account in which I
>  got the password hash and I reset my 'dky' account password on Savannah.
>  Now, is there a way to register 'cvsget' under my 'dky' project instead
>  of 'schemer' id?
>  With regard to fencepost account, I have endless problems from my side.
>  I work behind a very strict firewall. I cant even SSH and log into my
>  fencepost account (Request Id: #6405, Paul Fischer handled it). I must
>  send a new set of SSH keys and register them in my account. For that, do
>  I just need to send my PUBLIC key or what should I do? I do not know
>  much about SSH and all those stuff...

Yes.  The best is to regenerate a set of keys.

ssh-keygen -t rsa

And send him the id_rsa.pub file.


> I now have a dial up connection at home with NO FIREWALL!!
>  Thank you very much for such a quick response.
> 
> with best regards,
> dhruva

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