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 > chan...@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 <ijack...@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.