To: "__ENCODED_REALNAME__" <__EMAIL__> From: __WHOAMI__ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: New Debian developer __ENCODED_REALNAME__ Cc: nm@debian.org, debian-admin@lists.debian.org Reply-To: nm@debian.org Date: __DATE__ User-Agent: ud-useradd script run by __WHOAMI__ [ This is a long mail with important information, so please read it all carefully. ] Dear __REALNAME__! Your account '__LOGIN__' has just been created in the central LDAP database of the Debian project. Please note that it needs a bit of time until this information is synced with all developer-accessible machines. You should be able to login into debian.org machines after about 30-60 minutes. If you applied for Debian Developer with uploading rights, you should be able to upload packages already. Email sent to <__LOGIN__@debian.org> will be forwarded to <__EMAIL__>, to change this visit . The Debian mail setup allows various per-user settings, like enabling greylisting, sender-verify-callouts and per-user dns blocklists. Please refer to on how to change these settings. Some may also be exposed via the web interface behind . Your password to access db.debian.org can be found encrypted with your OpenPGP key and appended to this message. It cannot be used to log into our machines; see the paragraph on SSH keys below. You now have access to various project machines, for a list of them take a look at . Please remember that you accepted the Debian Machine Usage Policy in your NM process (available at ). On porter machines, the chroot environments can be entered with the 'schroot' command, depending on setup; take a look at the list of machines to know which are our porterboxes. You can install build dependencies yourself once you instantiated a session. Please consult for more information and ask your fellow DDs if you need any help. You can use ssh to log into the machines. On debian.org servers the only ssh authentication method available is publickey for security reasons. The LDAP directory is able to share public ssh keys among machines, please see . Please be aware of the security implications of using public-key authentication and ssh agents. The SSH fingerprints for all Debian machines can be found in a known_hosts that file can be downloaded from or obtained via SSH from master.debian.org:/var/lib/misc/ssh_known_hosts, or looked up in DNS from DNSSEC protected SSHFP records using the VerifyHostKeyDNS ssh option, or looked up on the web at . Debian secures almost all of its websites using TLS. The TLS certificates used are signed by the Let's Encrypt certificate authority. Debian provides anonymous access to some of its websites via the Tor Network, using Onion Services . The list of available websites is on and also . To give you a quick overview here is a list of the most important machines from the project you can access. There is the main archive server, but shell access to it is restricted for security reasons. You can upload using SSH or anonymous FTP, with SSH being preferred. You can use the SCP, SFTP or rsync protocols when uploading over SSH. Please use the service name ssh.upload.debian.org (or ftp.upload) as the target for your uploads (so that we can point that some place else when the archive system is down for maintenance etc.). A tool like dput or dupload can aid this process. The project main shell server is located at people.debian.org. If you want your own Debian related site to appear behind then put it on this machine in the directory ~/public_html/. The service hosting most of our git repositories is salsa.debian.org, and it is handled by a separate team that you can reach at salsa-admin@debian.org. You probably already have a guest account there. Please refer to https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa to learn anything you need to know, including how to activate your account. There is one developer-only mailing list, debian-private. You have been subscribed to this list as <__PRIVATE__>. Please respect the privacy of this list and don't forward info from it to other people. The #debian-private IRC channel on the OFTC network is the IRC equivalent to the debian-private mailing list and can be accessed using a password that can be obtained using this command: ssh master.debian.org cat /home/debian/misc/irc-password The debian-private list subscription, and a lot of other data like your private information, can be changed at the web interface available behind ; just login with the password information appended to this email. The information stored here is used to maintain your accounts on various Debian machines, and also to allow other developers and general users to find out more about you. Many of the fields are only visible to other registered Debian developers. This is also the only way to change your password. The passwd program does not work. You can refer to to find additional notes to help you migrate your previous information to your new account. Before we go on with other important information let's remember the most important documents from the NM process. That you now got your account doesn't mean to stop reading and checking them whenever you do packaging or other Debian related work. o The Debian Social Contract o The Debian Policy Manual o The Debian Developer's reference You can find much more information useful to developers at . Also, please subscribe to the mailing list debian-devel-announce, if you haven't done so already. All Debian developers are required to read this list, as important announcements are made there. Changes to Debian's infrastructure and maintenance of it are announced to the debian-infrastructure-announce mailing list. We strongly suggest that you use your __LOGIN__@debian.org address for the maintainer field in your packages, because that one will be valid as long as you are a Debian developer, even if you change jobs, leave university or change Internet Service providers. If you do so, please add that address to your OpenPGP key(s) (using `gpg --edit-key "YOUR USER ID"') and send it to the keyring server at keyring.debian.org with `gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --send-keys "YOUR USER ID"'. We suggest that you subscribe to debian-mentors@lists.debian.org. This list is for new maintainers who seek help with initial packaging and other developer-related issues. Those who prefer one-on-one help can also post to the list, and an experienced developer may volunteer to help you. You can get online help on IRC, too, if you join the channel #debian-devel or #debian-mentors on the OFTC network. Take a look at the support section on in order to find out more information. If you have some spare time and want to contribute it to Debian you may wish to take a look at the "Work-Needing and Prospective Packages", (WNPP) that can be found at . Being a Debian contributor confers certain benefits when dealing with external organisations. Welcome to the project! -- Debian System Administrators on behalf of The Debian New Maintainer Team __PASSWORD__