[Savannah-hackers] Re: Request for account

[Lisa M. Opus Goldstein]

Dear Mathieu,

Thank you for your time in writing such a detailed answer.  But i am
confused and have a few more questions.

If I want to set someone up as an "admin" in a project, so that they
can check out, modify, and return the modified project files, don't
they need to have a user name/account unique to the Savannah system?
If not, what method do they use to log in to the Savannah system?  For
instance, I log in as "opus" on Savannah.  Is that a unique account,
or does it somehow refer to my fencepost account?


Best Regards,

-Lisa








Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joe Fineman <address@hidden> said:
> 
> > Dear hackers:
> > 
> > Inasmuch as I hope to do some copyediting for Opus at GNU Press, I
> > would be obliged if you could set up an account for me.  An extract
> > from her letter is appended:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We can perfectly set up an account for you, according to Lisa
> proposal, but:
>         - "Savannah account" usually means an account on the savannah
>         system, a web interface (see http://savannah.gnu.org).
>         This is automated, you only require a valid email address.
>         - As savannah.gnu.org is a production server, we would like
>         to only create shell accounts there when it's for an identified
>         purpose.
>         And the server shouldn't at all be used for another purpose
>         than managing a project on the server. If you need an account
>         to write software (even the project managed by savannah), to
>         read mails, you should ask to address@hidden The load on
>         the server is already high.
>         - Normally, using Savannah service do not at all require
>         a shell account. If not, it's a bug.
> 
> That said, I think that you should first create a "savannah account"
> (web interface). Then you should begin working using this interface,
> getting familiar with it. If there are things you have to do that
> cannot be done with the prefered methods (cvs via ssh, scp, rsync via
> ssh), tell us what you want to do precisely and we will create such an
> account. Note that working with a shell account on the server is not
> easier. 
> 
> It can sound a little bit paranoid but it saves lot of our time to
> proceed this way. For instance, by reading Lisa mail, I understand
> that you will maybe use CVS. While for some task, a shell account may
> be useful with CVS, nobody should work with a shell account on CVS
> repositories without a good knowledge of CVS. 
> Most of the time, CVS commands are enough.
> Also, if we had to create manually an account for each users, it would
> take hours.
> And finally, it's easier for us to have a limited number of person
> that have a shell account - we can easily identify malicious
> logins. More users with shell account we have, less secure is the
> server. 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
>          
> 
> > 
> > > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:06:37 -0400 From: "Lisa M. Opus
> > > Goldstein" <address@hidden> To: Joe Fineman <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Signing up for Savannah account
> > 
> > > Joe Fineman <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I assume you have a Savannah account already?
> > > > 
> > > > I don't even know what that is.  %^(
> > 
> > > Nice pictograph!
> > 
> > > https://savannah.gnu.org/   is the home page.
> > 
> > > Savannah is the repository we now use for projects.  Many other,
> > > "non-gnu" projects use it as well.  It is a CVS repository, standing
> > > for "Control Version System" (or something like that).  It allows
> > > many people working on a project to make independent changes, and
> > > then everyone else can download them.  A zillion copies of the
> > > changed files are kept, with the changes carefully logged.  If they
> > > decide they don't like a set of changes, the sys admin can bring
> > > back an alternative version.  It is very handy for project
> > > management.
> > 
> > > Please send email to address@hidden asking them to set up
> > > an account for you.  Please make sure that you mention you will be
> > > working on documentation projects for me, an FSF employee.  (You can
> > > include this letter in your email to them.)
> > 
> > > Hopefully, you should get a response within a week. If not, please
> > > send a follow-up email.  Then Sergey can add you as an "admin" on
> > > the radius page, and you can make changes yourself to the book.
> > 
> > > Best Regards,
> > 
> > > -Opus
> > 
> > > Lisa M. Goldstein           address@hidden
> > 
> > Thank you for your attention.
> > -- 
> > ---  Joe Fineman    address@hidden
> > 
> > ||:  Life is one long process of getting tired.  :||
> > 
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