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12 [ This is a long mail with important information, so please read it all
17 Your account '__LOGIN__' has just been created in the central LDAP
18 database of the Debian project. Please note that it needs a bit of time
19 until this information is synced with all developer-accessible machines.
20 You should be able to login into debian.org machines after about 30-60
21 minutes. If you applied for Debian Developer with uploading rights,
22 you should be able to upload packages already.
24 Email sent to <__LOGIN__@debian.org> will be forwarded to <__EMAIL__>,
25 to change this visit <URL:http://db.debian.org/forward.html>.
26 The Debian mail setup allows various per-user settings, like enabling
27 greylisting, sender-verify-callouts and per-user dns blocklists.
28 Please refer to <URL:http://db.debian.org/doc-mail.html> on how to change
29 these settings. Some may also be exposed via the web interface behind
30 <URL:https://db.debian.org/login.html>.
32 Your password to access db.debian.org can be found encrypted with your
33 PGP key and appended to this message. It cannot be used to log into
34 our machines; see the paragraph on SSH keys below.
36 You now have access to various project machines, for a list of them take
37 a look at <URL:http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi>.
38 Please remember that you accepted the Debian Machine Usage Policy in
39 your NM process (available at <URL:http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup>).
41 If you need additional software installed on one of the machines (in the
42 host system) please contact debian-admin@lists.debian.org, but keep in
43 mind that not all software is available on all architectures.
45 On porter machines, the chroot environments can be entered with the
46 'dchroot' or the 'schroot' command, depending on setup; take a look at
47 the list of machines to know which are our porterboxes. For
48 installation requests in porter chroots please follow the procedure
49 outlined at <URL:http://dsa.debian.org/doc/install-req/>.
51 You need to use ssh to log into the machines; telnet and rlogin are
52 disabled for security reasons. On debian.org servers the only ssh
53 authentication method available is publickey. The LDAP directory is
54 able to share RSA ssh keys among machines, please see
55 <URL:http://db.debian.org/doc-mail.html>. Please be aware of the
56 security implications of using RSA authentication and ssh agents. The
57 SSH fingerprints for all Debian machines can be looked up at
58 <URL:http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi> or a known_hosts file can be
59 downloaded from <URL:https://db.debian.org/debian_known_hosts>.
61 Debian secures some of it's websites using SSL. The SSL certificates
62 used are signed by the intermediate CA ca.debian.org. ca.debian.org
63 itself is signed by SPI CA which is part of the Debian package
66 To give you a quick overview here is a list of the most important
67 machines from the project you can access. There is the main archive
68 server, but shell access to it is restricted for security reasons, so you
69 can only upload with anonymous FTP - please use the service name
70 ftp.upload.debian.org as the target for your uploads (so that we can
71 point that some place else when the archive system is down for
72 maintenance etc.). A tool like dput or dupload can aid this
75 The project main shell server is located at ravel.debian.org. This
76 machine is also reachable as people.debian.org. If you want your own
77 Debian related site to appear behind
78 <URL:http://people.debian.org/~__LOGIN__/> then put it at this
79 machine in the directory ~/public_html/.
81 The machine hosting most of our VCS repositories
82 ({svn,bzr,git,arch,hg}.debian.org) is alioth.debian.org. It's handled
83 by a separate team (admin@alioth.debian.org) as it allows login by
84 non-Debian developers. You probably already have a *-guest account
85 there. Please refer to http://wiki.debian.org/AliothFAQ to learn
86 anything you need to know, including how to activate your account and
87 how to request the removal of your old -guest account.
89 There is one developer-only mailing list, debian-private. You have been
90 subscribed to this list as <__PRIVATE__>, please respect the privacy of
91 this list and don't forward mail from it elsewhere. This subscription, and
92 a lot of other data like your private information, can be changed at the
93 web interface available behind <URL:https://db.debian.org/>; just login
94 with the password information appended to this email.
96 The information stored here is used to maintain your accounts on various
97 Debian machines, and also to allow other developers and general users to
98 find out more about you. Many of the fields are only visible to other
99 registered Debian developers. This is also the only way to change your
100 password. The passwd program does not work.
102 You can refer to http://wiki.debian.org/MigrateToDDAccount to find
103 additional notes to help you migrate your previous information to your
106 Before we go on with other important information let's remember the most
107 important documents from the NM process. That you now got your account
108 doesn't mean to stop reading and checking them whenever you do packaging
109 or other Debian related work.
111 o The Debian Social Contract
112 <URL:http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html>
114 o The Debian Policy Manual
115 <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/>
117 o The Debian Developer's reference
118 <URL:http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/>
120 You can find much more information useful to developers at
121 <URL:http://www.debian.org/devel/>.
123 Also, please subscribe to the mailing list debian-devel-announce, if you
124 haven't done so already. All Debian developers are required to read
125 this list, as important announcements are made there. Changes to
126 Debian's infrastructure and maintenance of it are announced to the
127 debian-infrastructure-announce mailing list.
129 We strongly suggest that you use your __LOGIN__@debian.org address for
130 the maintainer field in your packages, because that one will be valid
131 as long as you are a Debian developer, even if you change jobs, leave
132 university or change Internet Service providers. If you do so, please
133 add that address to your PGP/GPG key(s) (using `gpg --edit-key "YOUR
134 USER ID"') and send it to the keyring server at keyring.debian.org
135 with `gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --send-keys "YOUR USER ID"'.
137 We suggest that you subscribe to debian-mentors@lists.debian.org.
138 This list is for new maintainers who seek help with initial packaging
139 and other developer-related issues. Those who prefer one-on-one help
140 can also post to the list, and an experienced developer may volunteer
141 to help you. You can get online help on IRC, too, if you join the
142 channel #debian-devel or #debian-mentors on irc.debian.org. Take a look
143 at the support section on <URL:http://www.debian.org/> in order to find
144 out more information.
146 If you have some spare time and want to contribute it to Debian you
147 may wish to take a look at the "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages",
148 (WNPP) that can be found at <URL:http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/>.
150 Welcome to the project!
153 Debian System Administrators on behalf of
154 The Debian New Maintainer Team