Re: [BLACKBOX] Hosting experience - Gitorius

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:13:16 -0700

----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-2038269862_-_- Content-type: text/plain Gitorius experience usr: psw: CON: Needed to verify email by receiving an activation link that gave no feedback that the link had changed anything. It just put on back at the Gitorious home page. I logged in with my info and that worked. Poor human factors design. CON: It seems to need a public SSH Key. Not sure why but I can guess. When I went to the site ( ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub or ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) which Gitorious suggested to obtain an SSH key I ended up at Google search list with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen as one of the options. Skimming that article forces me (back) into the Unix world which I dearly wish to avoid. Hence Gitorious is NOT platform independent but is heavily tied to Unix. ---- To unsubscribe, send a message with body "SIGNOFF BLACKBOX" to LISTSERV{([at]})nowhere.xy ----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-2038269862_-_- Content-type: text/html Gitorius experience


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CON: Needed to verify email by receiving an activation link that gave no feedback that the
    link had changed anything.  It just put on back at the Gitorious home page.  I logged in
    with my info and that worked.  Poor human factors design.

CON: It seems to need a public SSH Key.  Not sure why but I can guess.
    When I went to the site ( ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub or ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) which Gitorious suggested
    to obtain an SSH key I ended up at Google search list with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen
    as one of the options.
    Skimming that article forces me (back) into the Unix world which I dearly wish to avoid.
    Hence Gitorious is NOT platform independent but is heavily tied to Unix.
   

---- To unsubscribe, send a message with body "SIGNOFF BLACKBOX" to LISTSERV{([at]})nowhere.xy ----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-2038269862_-_--- Received on Fri Aug 30 2013 - 03:13:16 UTC

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