On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:27:35AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Francois Petillon wrote: > >Is there any reason why a GPG key ID & a SSH public key are needed to > >create an account ? Several people here manage the FTP mirrors server > >and we usually create a single account for mirrors management web > >interfaces. I could create a "fake" account (ie it would not be an > >official company account) but it is probably not the right way to > >solve the problem. > For the most part people need the ssh key to access cvs though for > general access I think it should be allowed to be blank. The GPG key is > part of our current electronic signature process for the CLA, again > should be allowed to be blank until the user wants to sign the CLA. > We're working on writing a new account system we can examine those needs > again. As you don't need to sign the CLA, you can choose to send your real GPG public key (preferred), or you can create a key which you then don't use. Likewise for the ssh public key - just create a keypair that you'll never use. And yes, folks working on the new account system know this seems odd and want to take care of it in the next version. :-) Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
