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

[Brett Cannon]

Do realize, though, that simply asking hgaccounts to take the keys from
your GitHub key URL might not get you what you expect if you use GitHub
Desktop as that app installs its own keys.


On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 03:05 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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