[Bioc-devel] Several ssh keys ?

Martin Morgan martin.morgan at roswellpark.org
Mon Oct 2 21:37:52 CEST 2017


On 10/02/2017 10:50 AM, Bernat Gel wrote:
> Don't want to be alarmist, but is there anything in place to prevent a 
> "malicious agent" inserting a new ssh key to the form and gaining access 
> to our git repo? Maybe it would be sufficient to send an email to the 
> maintainer whenever a new key is added so we have a clue something has 
> gone wrong?

yes, there are opportunities for gaining 'unintended' access. We're 
working on tightening these up.

Note that there is a mapping between the public key and the packages 
that the public key provides access to, and the mapping is not itself 
public.

Martin

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> El 09/29/2017 a las 02:32 PM, Turaga, Nitesh escribió:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Good morning. You can do that.
>>
>> You have to add your new key to the google form. You can do that in 
>> two ways.
>>
>> 1. If you have submitted an SSH public key. (This is your case)
>>
>>      — Submit a new ssh public key to the google form, but with the 
>> same SVN ID and email address. The google form when it is processed 
>> will pick it up.
>>
>> 2. If you have submitted a Github ID(/ username) as a surrogate for us 
>> to fetch your SSH public keys for Github (located at 
>> www.github.com/<username>.keys),
>>
>>     — Add your new keys to the GitHub SSH key form 
>> (https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account/). 
>>
>>
>>     — DO NOT add anything in the google form.
>>
>>     — When the form is processed again, it will add your new SSH keys 
>> to bioconductor.  You may add as many keys to GitHub as you want for 
>> access from different computers, and we’ll keep them all on file.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nitesh
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sep 29, 2017, at 4:38 AM, Samuel Wieczorek 
>>> <samuel.wieczorek at cea.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I would like to work on two different machines with Git and
>>> Bioconductor. Is it possible to have two ssh keys ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>>
>>> Sam
>>>
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