debian.org uses a single LDAP driven directory for account managment across all the project run machines. This directory also provides services for leaving vacation notices, updating xplanet coordinates, email forwarding, ssh authentication keys and other information.
Note: master and va do not presently use the LDAP directory. Only lully uses replicated SSH RSA authentication keys and master does not use the email forwarding field (but all other machines do)
Maintainer-only information includes precise location information [postalcode, postal address, lat/long] telephone numbers, and the vacation message.
Admin-only/user-only information includes email forwarding, ssh keys and the encrypted password. Note that email forwarding is necessarily publicly viewable from accounts on the actual machines.
Entries in the directory are keyed to the developers PGP key, whoever has that key can make any change to the directory through the mail interface.
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