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52 <h1>Lost or Forgotten password</h1>
54 If you have lost or forgotten your LDAP password (and by extension, your
55 machine login password) you can have it reset by sending a PGP signed
56 message to the <a href="doc-mail.html">mail gateway</a>:
58 echo "Please change my Debian password" | gpg --clearsign | mail chpasswd@db.debian.org
60 echo "Please change my Debian password" | pgp -fast | mail chpasswd@db.debian.org
62 The daemon will then respond with a new randomized password encrypted
63 with your key. You can then use the
64 <a href="https://db.debian.org/login.html">SSL Web pages</a> to change your
65 password to something you can remember. You cannot set a new password via the
68 Alternatively, you can do without a password and use PGP to manipulate your
69 LDAP information through the <a href="doc-mail.html">mail gateway</a> and use
70 SSH RSA Authentication to access the servers. To setup OpenSSH for RSA you
71 need to first generate a private RSA key using <tt>ssh-keygen</tt> and select
72 a good passphrase for it. Then send the public portion of the key to the LDAP
75 gpg --clearsign < ~/.ssh/identity.pub | mail change@db.debian.org
77 You can then use this key to authenticate to the machines. Using ssh-agent
78 (automatically run by Debian's X configuration) you can use ssh-add to 'cache'
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