[Bioc-devel] git: lost write access to some repos + what is my BiocCredentials email address?

[Nitesh Turaga]

Hi Henrik,

You should have access to these packages again. 

Please try again.

Best

Nitesh Turaga
Scientist II, Department of Data Science,
Bioconductor Core Team Member
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

> On Aug 19, 2021, at 8:08 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I seem to have "lost" write access to several Bioconductor git
> repositories that I had git push access for before;
> 
> $ ssh -T git using git.bioconductor.org | grep -E
> "(affxparser|aroma.light|illuminaio|QDNAseq)$"
> X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
> R      packages/QDNAseq
> R      packages/affxparser
> R      packages/aroma.light
> R W    packages/illuminaio
> 
> Using `ssh -v ...`, I see that my git+ssh "offers" the server an RSA
> public key (AAAAB...PwYDZ), which is accepted.  Since this gives me
> write access to one of the repositories, I either have lost write
> access to the others, or I somehow have ended up with different SSH
> keys associated with different repositories (since I had write
> permissions in the past).
> 
> For example, with:
> 
> $ git clone git using git.bioconductor.org:packages/aroma.light
> $ cd aroma.light
> $ git remote -v
> origin    git using git.bioconductor.org:packages/aroma.light (fetch)
> origin    git using git.bioconductor.org:packages/aroma.light (push)
> 
> I get:
> 
> $ git push
> X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
> FATAL: W any packages/aroma.light h.bengtsson DENIED by fallthru
> (or you mis-spelled the reponame)
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
> 
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.
> 
> I followed FAQ #15 to check what SSH key I have on BiocCredentials,
> but when I try to activate the account on
> https://git.bioconductor.org/BiocCredentials/account_activation/ using
> the email address I have in the DESCRIPTION file, I get
> "henrikb using braju.com is not associated with a maintainer of a
> Bioconductor package. Please check the spelling or contact
> bioc-devel using r-project.org for help."(*) I suspect it's another email
> address I should use, possibly one from the SVN era. How can I find
> out which email address I should use?
> 
> (*) FYI, the webpage hint reading "Enter the email associated with
> your Bioconductor package" might be ambiguous; Is it really specific
> to a particular package?  Should it say something like "Enter the
> email associated with your Bioconductor developer account"?
> 
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