[Bioc-devel] Generate valid SSH keys for the bioc-git server!

[Turaga, Nitesh]

Hi Maintainers,

Some of you have submitted keys which look like this, 

```3d:9a:10:86:19:3d:ac:b4:a1:fe:c2:a9:8c:28:55:49```  ##wrong, this is a SSH key fingerprint. This is NOT an ssh key. 

A valid ssh key looks like, 

```
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAklOUpkDHrfHY17SbrmTIpNLTGK9Tjom/BWDSU
GPl+nafzlHDTYW7hdI4yZ5ew18JH4JW9jbhUFrviQzM7xlELEVf4h9lFX5QVkbPppSwg0cda3
Pbv7kOdJ/MTyBlWXFCR+HAo3FXRitBqxiX1nKhXpHAZsMciLq8V6RjsNAQwdsdMFvSlVK/7XA
t3FaoJoAsncM1Q9x5+3V0Ww68/eIFmb1zuUFljQJKprrX88XypNDvjYNby6vw/Pb0rwert/En
mZ+AW4OZPnTPI89ZPmVMLuayrD2cE86Z/il8b+gw3r3+1nKatmIkjn2so1d01QraTlMqVSsbx
NrRFi9wrf+M7Q== 
```

Please check this link to learn how to generate keys, 

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Generating-Your-SSH-Public-Key

> https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/.
> 
> https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/faq/

If you want to validate your key before sub, please try, 

```
ssh-keygen -l -f id_rsa.pub
```

Another point I’d like to make is, please submit your queries to the bioc-devel mailing list. The bioc-devel mailing list email is bioc-devel at r-project.org. It is very useful for the community to know about these issues. 


Thanks,


Best,

Nitesh


> On Aug 16, 2017, at 9:05 PM, Turaga, Nitesh <Nitesh.Turaga at RoswellPark.org> wrote:
> 
> You have a malformed key. Please check the key you submitted.
> 
> If you do not know what an SSH key is, 
> 
> https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/.
> 
> https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git/faq/
> 
> Please follow the links to submit a SSH key which is valid.
> 
> Please also reply to bioc-devel, the reply will be much faster and there are many people who might have the same question.
> 
> Nitesh
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2017, at 9:00 PM, Dario Strbenac <dstr7320 at uni.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Good day,
>> 
>> I used the Google Form a couple of weeks ago to submit the public key for ClassifyR. I still can't fetch the repository. What is the status of it being registered?
>> 
>> --------------------------------------
>> Dario Strbenac
>> University of Sydney
>> Camperdown NSW 2050
>> Australia
> 



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