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information about sourceware/gcc.gnu.org/cygwin accounts

Accounts on sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org/cygwin are not usually provided with shell access. Instead the various version control systems (CVS, SVN, GIT, mercurial, etc.) are handled specially. If you are a project maintainer and believe you have a need of shell access, contact the overseers to make your case.

Note that your sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org/cygwin account name may differ from your your userid on your client workstation! If so, remember to pass the sourceware username in your ssh operations. You can do this manually:

ssh USERID@sourceware.org ....

If you cannot log on, check the user-name first - you can fix that yourself. It is also possible that your ssh key is lost, or too old/insecure. If so, email to admin-requests@sourceware.org to plead your case for a manual key replacement.

Account management

Some special commands are also available to provide account management functions. These are:

• appendkey
  Add the supplied SSH key to your account's SSH authorized_keys file. Example:

    $ ssh sourceware.org appendkey < newkey.pub
  

• replacekey
  Replace all existing SSH keys in your account's SSH authorized_keys file with the supplied key. Example:

    $ ssh sourceware.org replacekey < newkey.pub
  

• email
  Set the forwarding address for mail sent to your account on sourceware (loginname@sourceware.org or loginname@gcc.gnu.org). Example:

    $ ssh sourceware.org email newuser@newdomain.com
  

• alive
  Check whether sourceware/gcc.gnu.org is alive, and its load. Example:

    $ ssh sourceware.org alive
  Linux sourceware.org 2.6.XX-YY.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Jan 1 12:34:56 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
   12:28:32 up 374 days, 13:07,  4 users,  load average: 3.41, 3.58, 3.25