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sr #108727: Confusing message in "My Account Conf" about SSH shared key

Submitter:  Gavin D. Smith <gavin>
Submitted:  Sat 17 Jan 2015 05:11:08 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Source code repositories - developer access Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Done
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  rwp
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 18 Jan 2015 09:40:40 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I agree the text of that message is bad and could be improved.

After some searching I located the text at:

  /etc/savane/content/gnu-content/account/index_ssh.txt

And I updated it as follows:

  Your Savannah password is not used for bzr, cvs, git, hg, rsync, scp, sftp or other service. Only an ssh rsa key is used for those purposes.

There is also a French translation.  I used my poor language skills to produce this translation which I fear will be terrible to a native speaker.  Corrections joyously welcomed.

  Votre mot de passe Savannah ne est pas utilisé pour bzr, cvs, git, hg, rsync, scp, sftp ou un autre service. Seule une clé rsa ssh est utilisé à ces fins.

Bob Proulx <rwp>
Site Administrator
Sat 17 Jan 2015 05:11:08 PM UTC, original submission:  

I was trying to checkout a CVS repository for read-write access. I saw on the "My Account Conf" page a message that said "Your Savannah password is useless for cvs, rsync, scp and sftp. You have to register a SSH Shared key for those purposes." This was underneath a link that said "Edit the 1 SSH Public Key registered".

Because I am not familiar with the ins and outs of SSH, I thought that an "SSH Shared key" and an "SSH Public Key" were different things. The message was in bold text so I assumed it was warning me that what I had uploaded wasn't good enough. Eventually though, I managed to checkout the CVS repository in question read-write without doing anything more with the SSH keys I had uploaded.

Gavin D. Smith <gavin>

 

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