Re: fencepost is fucked; anyone know what's going on?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

"Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com> writes:

> Miles Bader asks
> 
>     Has anyone had their account re-enabled yet?  I got the call from the
>     FSF to confirm my ssh info two days ago, but still can't login to
>     fencepost via ssh, and email goes unanswered.  I'm starting to wonder
>     if there's something else wrong with my setup.
> 
> I have confirmed the new fencepost host id; I have not received a
> telephone call; and I am not able to log in:
> 
>      $ date +"%a, %Y %h %e  %H:%M:%S %Z" ; ssh -l bob fencepost.gnu.org
>     Thu, 2003 Aug  7  12:52:07 UTC
>     Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

Which was the state of affairs till yesterday for me as well.  There
seemingly is a large number of accounts to deal with, and not much of
a standard procedure or manpower for dealing with a case like that
fast enough for everyone's comfort.  Unless matters are very urgent
for you (I had important mail piling up that I could not access,
dak@gnu.org being my principal account), I would wait a few days more.
Remember that the usual autoreply from accounts@gnu.org tells you to
wait for three business days for a reaction, and that is for the case
where not every account has gone off disabled at the same time.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum