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Re: mentors.debian.ORG?



Moin, Raphael...

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:12:25PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> This is offtopic to your questions, but I should better say this now than
> forgetting about this idea:
> 
> For the new users registration process what about making mentors:
> 
>  * require the key to be in a keyserver so it can fetch it from there, and
> removing the current 'upload your key' way.

Good idea. Putting that on the todo list.

>  * and once the key has been imported in mentors' local keyring, the user
> should fetch mentors' public key in order to send an encrypted message
> either via web or via email to mentors in a format such as the following so
> the new account is created:
> Email: john@doe.com
> Password: foobar

Sounds like the way Ubuntu verifies members' keys and in the process
gets their "EULA" accepted. Yes, let's steal that idea.

Thanks for your ideas.

 Christoph
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