Re: Emacs project on Savannah

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

> > I've just recovered the write access to CVS.  I did the
> > followings.
> > 
> > (1) Visit http://savannhah.gnu.org
> > (2) Click "Login via SSL".
> > (3) Click "[Lost your password?]
> > (4) Enter my login name "handa" and click "Send Lost PW Hash".
> > (5) Receive a mail from savannah-hackers@gnu.org.  Visit the
> >     URL specified in the mail.
> > (6) Type my new password.
> > (7) Visit http://savannhah.gnu.org
> > (8) Click "Login via SSL".
> > (9) Enter login name and password and click "Login".
> > (10) Click "My Account Conf"
> > (11) Click "Enter the 1 SSH Public key(s) Registered.
> > (12) Enter the contents of my ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub in the box, and
> >      click "Update".
> > 
> > After a few minutes, I got a write access to CVS, and I
> > commited changes in lisp/mule-cmds.el and
> > lisp/ucs-tables.el.
> 
> I did the same, but I still can't access the CVS (the same is true for
> the other projects).  Some notes:
> 
>   . I haven't registered a SSH Public Key before, so it was the first
>     time.  Does this matter?

How were you able to use CVS before?  You need a version of OpenSSH
that supports protocol 2 (note that ssh2 has a _different_
protocol).  You also have to use protocol 2 by default, so if you
have a manual protocol 1 override in your .ssh/config file as was
needed previously, you have to remove it.

>   . Which password shall I use while doing e.g. `cvs update'?  The
>     password specified during the call to ssh-keygen?

You must not use any password at all (that is a fallback attempt if
the public key authentication fails, and the fallback will surely fail
since Savannah allows only public key).  If your key was generated
with a passphrase (mainly mandatory when your secret key is stored on
a machine for which you have not sole access), then you'll want to use
the ssh-agent for password entry.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum