[Savannah-hackers] Re: a dummy project to help create accounts

[loic]

 > First, let me clarify the difference between having a savannah account
 > and having a subversions account.  Having a savannah account means
 > that you can log into to the web interface.  Having a subversions
 > account means that you have a line in /etc/passwd, a home directory,
 > etc.
 > 
 > Someone can indeed have a savannah account and be in no projects.
 > subversions accounts are only created for savannah accounts which are
 > in at least one project.
 > 
 > sysadmin.texi currently recommends that account-creation volunteers copy
 > SSH keys from the home directory on subversions.  However, this is only
 > possible if the user has been added to at least one project, and it also
 > requires the account-creation volunteer to have root on subversions.
 > 
 > I'll soon be updating sysadmin.texi to recommend getting the SSH keys
 > from /subversions/sourceforge/dumps/accounts.txt, which neither
 > requires root access, nor that the user has been added to a project.
 > Note that this file is only updated once per day.

        I confirm all this.

 > > When all this gets worked out, please document this in detail in
 > > sysadmin.texi.
 > 
 > Will do.

        There should also be a pointer to the part of the
savannah.gnu.org/savannah.html that explains some points related to 
account management, I think.

        Cheers,

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