[FFmpeg-devel] Call for SSH pubkeys for git repository at videolan.org

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 8 Jan 2011, at 17:01, Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> On date Friday 2010-12-10 15:24:39 +0100, Janne Grunau encoded
>> 
>> my previous call for SSH pubkeys from current svn committers seems to
>> gone by mostly unnoticed. I got only 3 keys.
>> 
>> Please reply with your SSH pubkey attached and preferably signed with
>> the GPG key in MAINTAINERS for push access to the FFmpeg git
>> repositories at git.videolan.org.
>> 
>> Janne
>> 
>> ps: I'm ready to switch whenever we want and I have time for 2-3 hours
> 
> I don't know what you mean with SSH pubkey, but I suppose it is the
> GPG/PGP public key corresponding to the fingerprint in MAINTAINERS.

No, it has to be a key that SSH can use for login instead of a password.
ssh-keygen generates such a public/private pair, just make sure to send the public part (.pub extension by default, IMO quite stupid to give the private one a name that tab completion will find first).
Windows SSH clients like putty can generate them too, but I am quite sure putty can't be used to commit with git, so overall no idea how this would work on Windows or OSX, at least for people used to use some GUI...
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