[python-committers] PSA: replace your DSA keys for SSH

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 12:00:01 CEST 2015


On 7 October 2015 at 13:43, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> As a followup to this, I have now removed all DSA keys. People who only
> had DSA keys will need to submit new keys to hgaccounts at .

And for folks looking for an authenticated way of passing along key
details, if you have a GitHub account, GitHub makes them available
after you upload them. For example: https://github.com/ncoghlan.keys

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015, at 13:36, Georg Brandl wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> newer OpenSSH versions (7.0+) default to not allowing ssh-dss keys for
>> public key authentication.  If you experience "permission denied" errors,
>> this (currently) comes from the client side only and hg.python.org will
>> accept these keys if you enable them using the PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes
>> option in your SSH config file.
>>
>> Of course ssh-dss is being phased out for a reason; we'd like to invite
>> everybody who has only DSA keys submitted for hg.python.org access to
>> send an RSA (min. 1024 bits) or ED25519 key to hgaccounts at python.org.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Georg
>>
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