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Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages]

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Peter Palfrader writes ("Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding"):
> Without a key in a keyring that somebody maintains, authenticating such
> requests, even manually, is going to be a PITA.

Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding"):
> In many cases (such this particular one) people don't have a viable gpg
> key anymore in the keyring: that means they can't email
> changes@db.debian.org to update their LDAP details (theoretically, they
> might still know the LDAP password and do it from there, but in practice
> all the people who reach that point already forgot it).

It would be possible to have an "emeritus" keyring, I guess.  Since it
would only be used for email forwarding and a few other things, it
could have weaker security requirements.

But this is all just hot air from me now, because I'm afraid I am not
volunteering to implement or maintain it :-/.

Regards,
Ian.

-- 
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>   These opinions are my own.

If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is
a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.

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Emeritus status, and email forwarding Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-11-15 13:00 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 13:50 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> - 2017-11-15 17:50 +0100
      Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> - 2017-11-17 20:30 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 15:50 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 16:20 +0100
      Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2017-11-15 17:10 +0100
        Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-11-15 17:30 +0100
          Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2017-11-15 18:20 +0100
          Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2017-11-16 00:30 +0100
            Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-11-16 12:20 +0100
        Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding [and 1 more messages] Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2017-11-16 01:10 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2017-11-17 23:10 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> - 2017-11-18 11:20 +0100
      Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> - 2017-11-18 12:40 +0100
  Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> - 2017-12-07 12:00 +0100
    Re: Emeritus status, and email forwarding Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2017-12-07 14:30 +0100

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