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Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding



On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Michael Stone wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:53:18AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Unfortunately it would mean that such people would still need some
> > kind of login on Debian systems, so that they could update the email
> > forwarding.  But it wouldn't have to have the wide powers of an active
> > DD/DM account.
> 
> Unless this turns into a extremely popular option it seems like updating
> could be done manually, with no need for a complicated technical solution.

Without a key in a keyring that somebody maintains, authenticating such
requests, even manually, is going to be a PITA.

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