= Guest Access to porter machines =
-People who are not DDs but are working on software in Debian are able to obtain
+People who are not DDs but are working on software in Debian are can request
access to porter machines for short term (1-2 months) in order to resolve port
issues and the like.
+The final decision about account creation remains with DSA.
+
+== DMs/NMs ==
+
+DMs (i.e. people who have their key in the debian-maintainers keyring) or
+people already in the NM process may route their request through the
+<a href="mailto:nm@debian.org">NM-frontdesk</a>.
+
+The following information should be provided to frontdesk:
+
+* First/Middle/Last-name
+* Preferred username
+* GPG key fingerprint (if key is in the debian-maintainers keyring), or key if not.
+* email address
+* Signed agreement to abide by DMUP (or link to the mailinglist archive of debian-newmaint where that already was done)
+* Machine(s)/Architecture(s) to which access is needed
+* Short rationale as to //why// access is needed
+
+A member of frontdesk will verify the information for correctness, and create a
+ticket in RT (signed by the frontdesk member) asking DSA to add the new account
+to LDAP.
+
== non-DMs ==
People who are not yet DMs or NMs will need to find a DD who is willing
* First/Middle/Last-name
* Preferred username
* GPG key
-* Forwarding email address (for things like cron output etc.)
+* email address
* Signed agreement to abide by DMUP
* Machine(s)/Architecture(s) to which access is needed
* Short rationale as to //why// access is needed
* Signed email containing above information
-== DMs/NMs ==
-
-DMs (i.e. people who have their key in the debian-maintainers keyring) or
-people already in the NM process may route their request through the
-<a href="mailto:new-maintainer@debian.org">NM-frontdesk</a>.
-
-The following information should be provided to frontdesk:
-
-* First/Middle/Last-name
-* Preferred username
-* GPG key fingerprint (if key is in the debian-maintainers keyring), or key if not.
-* Forwarding email address (for things like cron output etc.)
-* Signed agreement to abide by DMUP (or link to the mailinglist archive of debian-newmaint where that already was done)
-* Machine(s)/Architecture(s) to which access is needed
-* Short rationale as to //why// access is needed
-A member of frontdesk will verify the information for correctness, and create a
-ticket in RT (signed by the frontdesk member) asking DSA to add the new account
-to LDAP.
+== Expired Accounts ==
+Once an account has expired the user will no longer be able to log into
+debian machines. If access is required again creating a ticket in RT should
+suffice to get it re-activated (The request should be pgp signed).
+Similarly, should access to other hosts become necessary a ticket in RT
+can be opened.
-The final decision about account creation remains with DSA.