From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18433 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2003 02:38:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18412 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2003 02:38:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (24.131.133.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2003 02:38:04 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 3DD8932A8A7; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:38:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:38:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Hans-Peter Nilsson Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com, Falk Hueffner Subject: Re: Request to add Falk Hueffner (falk) to gcc group Message-ID: <20031014023803.GA31559@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Hans-Peter Nilsson , overseers@sources.redhat.com, Falk Hueffner References: <877k38ke48.fsf@student.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-q4/txt/msg00079.txt.bz2 On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:43:59PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: >On 13 Oct 2003, Falk Hueffner wrote: >>I would like to be added to the gcc group for write-after-approval CVS >>access. I already have a bugzilla account at sources.redhat.com with >>account name "falk", but no ssh key. I've attached one. The copyright >>assignment is already in place. > >Let me add that the reason for not using the web interface is *not* >believing that there already is a real user account named "falk", but >with problems with the web interface. Falk suggested on IRC that the >cgi should replace newlines by space by itself before checking, which >seems a good idea, since many browsers line-wrap plain text input >fields. Well, hundreds of people have managed the strenous feat of getting their ssh key into the web page. I'm not inclined to be manually adding anyone anytime soon. The whole point of an automated system is to minimize the amount of fallible human work required to add an account. The script is in the cgi-bin cvs directory. Anyone who is bothered by its current behavior should feel free to offer a patch.