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www/software README.accounts.html
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
www/software README.accounts.html |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:26:30 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Karl Berry <karl> 10/04/24 22:26:30
Modified files:
software : README.accounts.html
Log message:
split no account/no ssh key
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/software/README.accounts.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
Patches:
Index: README.accounts.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/software/README.accounts.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -b -r1.7 -r1.8
--- README.accounts.html 18 Apr 2010 17:53:28 -0000 1.7
+++ README.accounts.html 24 Apr 2010 22:26:26 -0000 1.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- Parent-Version: $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
<!-- This is the template document for GNU web pages. We use
server side includes (#include) for common elements, for
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
<h2>Accounts on GNU machines</h2>
<p>The GNU Project has a general login server named
-<tt>fencepost.gnu.org</tt> which project members can use for their
-email, development and testing. Some <a href="/prep/maintain/">files
-for GNU maintainers</a> are also kept there.</p>
+<tt>fencepost.gnu.org</tt> which project members can use. Some <a
+href="/prep/maintain/">files for GNU maintainers</a> are also kept
+there.</p>
<p>The GNU Project also runs a hosting site, <a
href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">savannah.gnu.org</a>. All GNU packages
@@ -48,72 +48,80 @@
interface.</p>
-<h3>If you already have a Savannah account</h3>
+<h3>If you have a Savannah account, with ssh key uploaded</h3>
-<p>If you already have an account on savannah.gnu.org and have also
-<b>registered an SSH public key there</b>, you can request a shell
-account on fencepost by sending email to <a
+<p>If you already have an account on savannah.gnu.org and <b>have also
+registered an ssh public key there</b>, you can request an account on
+fencepost by sending email to <a
href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a> with your
-Savannah user name. Your SSH public key from Savannah will be used for
-access to fencepost. Otherwise, keep reading.</p>
+Savannah user name. Your ssh public key from Savannah will be used for
+access to fencepost.</p>
+<p>Your <a href="devel.html">fencepost account can be used</a> for
+email, development and testing related to your work on GNU.</p>
-<h3>If you don't yet have a Savannah account</h3>
-<p>You need to create a Savannah account and upload your SSH public key
-to Savannah.<p>
+<h3>If you have a Savannah account, but no ssh key uploaded</h3>
-<ol>
-<li>To create your account, please do the following:
-
-<ul>
-<li>Visit <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">http://savannah.gnu.org</a>
-(your browser will need to support https).
-
-<li>Follow the “New User” link, and follow the directions.
-
-<li>Aside: to manage your web pages, source code, and/or ftp area,
-you can register a project using the “Register New
-Project” link.
-
-</ul>
-
-<li>To then upload your <a href="http://www.openssh.org/">OpenSSH</a>
-public key, do the following:
+<p>After logging in to your savannah account, to upload your <a
+href="http://www.openssh.org/">OpenSSH</a> public key, do the
+following:</p>
<ul>
<li>On each machine from which you'll want to connect to savannah,
-run <code>ssh-keygen</code> to generate an SSH RSA keypair. The
+run <code>ssh-keygen</code> to generate an ssh RSA keypair. The
resulting public key will be left in <code>~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub</code>,
which contains one very long line of ASCII text. (By the way, you
<a href="http://meyering.net/nuke-your-DSA-keys/">should not use DSA
-keys</a>.)
+keys</a>.)</li>
<li>Login to <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">savannah</a> in your
-browser.
+browser.</li>
<li>Click the “My Account Conf” item in the left-hand
-navigation bar.
+navigation bar.</li>
<li>On the resulting page, click “Register an SSH Public
-Key” (under Authentication Setup).
+Key” (under Authentication Setup).</li>
<li>Paste your OpenSSH public key(s) in the “Authorized
keys” text field. Make sure there are no line breaks within a
-key. Then click the “Update” button.
+key. Then click the “Update” button.</li>
<li>This will bring you back to the Account Configuration page. Verify
that the number of “SSH Public Keys registered” is the same
number that you actually uploaded. If it is higher, then some extra
-line breaks snuck in, so you should try again.
+line breaks snuck in, so you should try again.</li>
<li>Once you've registered on and uploaded your ssh key(s) to savannah,
email <a href="mailto:address@hidden"><address@hidden></a>
with your savannah user name and they (the FSF sysadmins) will give you
-access to fencepost via those keys.</p>
+access to fencepost via those keys.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>(By the way, you'll also need to have an ssh key uploaded in order to
+make commits to repositories.)</p>
+
+
+<h3>If you don't yet have a Savannah account</h3>
+
+<p>You need to create a Savannah account and upload your ssh public key
+to Savannah. To create your account, do the following:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Visit <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">http://savannah.gnu.org</a>
+(your browser will need to support https).</li>
+
+<li>Follow the “New User” link, and follow the directions.</li>
+
+<li>Aside: to manage your web pages, source code, and/or ftp area,
+you can register a project using the “Register New
+Project” link.</li>
</ul>
-</ol>
+
+<p>Then follow the instructions in the previous two sections.</p>
<h3>Problems?</h3>
@@ -154,7 +162,7 @@
<p>Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/04/18 17:53:28 $
+$Date: 2010/04/24 22:26:26 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>