Re: forgot password or misconfiguration

[Jan Owoc]

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 7:12 AM Heinz-Josef Claes <hjclaes@web.de> wrote:
>
> seems something with my gpg configuration is wrong. When trying to
> upload a new version, I get an error message:
>
> $ scp storeBackup-3.5.1.tar.bz2
> hjclaes@dl.sv.nongnu.org:/releases/storebackup
> hjclaes@dl.sv.nongnu.org's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
>
> What do I have to do to make it work again? (Last working upload was at
> April 2014. I have a backup from Jan. 2014. Can I restore something from
> my old backup to the actual gpg data/config?)

Savannah keeps a copy of your "public" key, and expects you to have
the "private" half in your .ssh folder. You can use gpg to generate a
new keypair.

Option 1) If you want to debug why it doesn't work, try repeating the
command with the "-v" option. I don't know if scp supports a double
"-vv" for even more verbosity. That will provide information about
which keys were exchanged etc. You can try:
ssh -vvv hjclaes@dl.sv.nongnu.org

Option 2) If you don't care too much about why it's not working today,
but suspect a missing keypair, then you can generate a new keypair and
upload the public key as described here:
https://savannah.nongnu.org/maintenance/SshAccess/

Kind regards,
Jan