On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:

> Hi!  Good to see you "back"!
> 
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Roger Sayle wrote:
> > Thanks to you too.  Alas, my credentials from the CVS days of GCC almost
> > certainly don't
> > work any more (in git),
> 
> My guess is that your credentials are fine (possibly modulo FSF
> assignment issues) if it wasn't for the ssh key for your account
> being unacceptably short and/or DSA.  I'd suggest you generate a
> new larger-than-X-bits RSA key (4096 should be good) and ask
> overseers@ to install it for you.

In this particular case, the reason a new key is probably needed is that 
the one currently installed for Roger's account is in SSH1 format (and SSH 
protocol version 1 is long obsolete, and I don't think SSH servers accept 
SSH1 format keys in authorized_keys for SSH protocol 2).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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