[Savannah-hackers-public] address@hidden: Re: Me failing at SSH keys]

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Could someone look into this?  We don't know what is wrong.

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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:39:50 +0100
To: Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>
Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden>,
        Jeff Bailey <address@hidden>,
        Alain Magloire <address@hidden>
From: Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Me failing at SSH keys

Dear Sergey,

torsdag den 18 november 2010 klockan 17:44 skrev Sergey Poznyakoff detta:
> Hi Mats,
> 
> > I would just like to keep you informed on my failure to
> > get the uploading of SSH keys at Savannah to work properly.
> 
> Could you give more detail please? What it is you attempted to
> do and how exactly did it fail?

I have uploaded two RSA keys to Savannah using the web interface.
They seem to be accepted every time, also after proof reading the
key material and replacing all ambiguous letters: 0, O, 1, l, and I.

I have also checked, using "ssh-keygen -y -f key-path", that I do
in fact remember both pass phrases!


In order to access Savannah I have attempted at

   ssh -i key-path git.gnu.org       (Alfred suggested this.)

   git clone ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/inetutils.git

Yes, my SSH client ties the correct key to "git.sv.gnu.org".
Both attempts end in a disappointing

   Permission denied (publickey)

The latter attempt asks for my pass phrase three time,
whereas the first command communicates a denial right off!

Whithout the ability to clone the repository, there is
no way I could push my ACK-ed changes back, so I must
somehow resolve this calamitym, if I should become
productive in the service of GNU Inetutils at all.


Best regards,
Mats
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