Access to the Website

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The Debian website is managed through cvs and wml. Besides a couple of webmasters a lot of translators are working to keep the website in good shape and to keep translations in sync with the English original text.

Write Access for Debian Developers

If you want to work on the website, either by translating or by maintaining a corner of your own, you need to get write access to the files. You already have SSH access to the host running cvs.debian.org. All you need additionally is group webwml access. I can add you to that particular group, but I cannot bypass our main webmasters. Hence, you'll need either of

• Approval by Matt Kraai or Frank Lichtenheld, send your mail to webmaster@debian.org and add joey@debian.org into the Cc field. In your mail you should explain why you need access.
• A pserver account from the time before you became a registered Debian developer. If you already have such an account, I'll switch your account from pserver to ssh.

Afterwards you can access the repository via the :ext: method of CVS via cvs.debian.org.

Write Access for others

If you want to work on the website, either by translating or by maintaining a corner of your own, you need to get write access to the files. I cannot create an account without the approval of our main web masters, hence, please send a mail to webmaster@debian.org and add joey@debian.org into the Cc field. In your mail you should explain why you need access. I'll happily create the account for you after an approval mail by Matt Kraai or Josip Rodin.

For the pserver account you'll need to supply a login name and a password. The login name has to be distinct from existing Debian accounts (please check with db.debian.org). The password must not be sent via mail un-encrypted, even though cvs sends it through the network un-encrypted.

A simple way to encrypt a password is by using a Perl one-liner, knowing that Perl is already installed on your Debian GNU/Linux machine:

perl -e "printf \"%s\n\", crypt ("SECRET", join ('', ('.', '/', 0..9, 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z')[rand (64), rand (64)]))"

Please send the result, together with the preferred account name, to me. I'd prefer if you would also encrypt the entire mail with my GnuPG key.

Notes

Please note that after the break-in into four Debian machines in November 2003, all pserver accounts were disabled. Hence, all people who had pserver write access before, have to ask for a new account. I have saved the old file and will read the cvs log, so if you had an account before, you'll get a new one at once. CVS pserver accounts are no longer maintained via CVS, or rather the file CVSROOT/passwd is simply ignored.

Formally, debian-admin maintains the CVS password file, even though I normally add people. Hence, feel free to contact debian-admin instead of me personally.

Similar rules apply for the DDP (debian-doc) repository, except that the webmasters are not the approving authority. If you need an account, some positive responses from honorable people on the debian-doc list who are involved in DDP would be helpful.