Once your user id is setup (see http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html) you'll get a long email which has this fragment:
"Your password, once set, will grant you shell access to people.apache.org and svn access to https://svn.apache.org/. You may in the future change it by running 'ssh <user>@people.apache.org <[email protected]>' and then 'passwd', or over the Web at <https://svn.apache.org/change-password> or <https://id.apache.org/ >." However, after setting the password, this ssh command fails with "Permission denied (publickey)." because they've switched to using public keys instead of passwords as noted at: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/committer_shell_access_to_people If you go to https://id.apache.org/ and upload your public key, the ssh should work (give it a few minutes to percolate through their systems).
