From def6876eac05992f43ee77196966bd02f96776e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Zobel-Helas Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:59:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] * Uploading/Non-Uploading DDs * remove superfluous "and" * SSH fingerprints of the machines * Debian CA * mention debian-infrastructure-announce Signed-off-by: Martin Zobel-Helas --- templates/welcome-message-800 | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/templates/welcome-message-800 b/templates/welcome-message-800 index 01c5756..3f9c480 100644 --- a/templates/welcome-message-800 +++ b/templates/welcome-message-800 @@ -17,14 +17,16 @@ Dear __REALNAME__! Your account '__LOGIN__' has just been created in the central LDAP database of the Debian project. Please note that it needs a bit of time until this information is synced with all developer-accessible machines. -You should be able to login or upload packages after about 30-60 minutes. -The password for this account can be found appended to this message, -encrypted with your GPG key. +You should be able to login into debian.org machines after about 30-60 +minutes. The password for this account can be found appended to this +message, encrypted with your GPG key. If you applied for Debian +Developer with uploading rights, you should be able to upload packages +already. Email sent to <__LOGIN__@debian.org> will be forwarded to <__EMAIL__>, to change this visit . The Debian mail setup allows various per-user settings, like enabling -greylisting and sender-verify-callouts and per-user dns blocklists. +greylisting, sender-verify-callouts and per-user dns blocklists. Please refer to on how to change these settings. Some may also be exposed via the web interface behind . @@ -45,7 +47,14 @@ You need to use ssh to log into the machines; telnet and rlogin are disabled for security reasons. The LDAP directory is able to share RSA ssh keys among machines, please see Please be aware of the security implications of using RSA authentication -and ssh agents. +and ssh agents. The SSH fingerprints for all Debian machines can be +looked up at or a known_hosts +file can be downloaded from . + +Debian secures some of it's websites using SSL. The SSL certificates +used are signed by the intermediate CA ca.debian.org. ca.debian.org +itself is signed by SPI CA which is part of the Debian package +ca-certificates. To give you a quick overview here is a list of the most important machines from the project you can access. There is the main archive @@ -106,7 +115,9 @@ You can find much more information useful to developers at Also, please subscribe to the mailing list debian-devel-announce, if you haven't done so already. All Debian developers are required to read -this list, as important announcements are made there. +this list, as important announcements are made there. Changes to +Debian's infrastructure and maintenance of it are announced to the +debian-infrastructure-announce mailing list. We strongly suggest that you use your __LOGIN__@debian.org address for the maintainer field in your packages, because that one will be valid -- 2.20.1