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Let's link to the freenode webconnect service for #wikimedia-cloud

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-cloud

and give people ssh instructions. You can grab what you need from the following:

Your SSH key will be used to authenticate you when you commit changes or log into Labs.
The key should be in the openssh format (not SSH2 format), see example :

ssh-rsa AAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAAB3FWqgypbL ... Lgfel80W3Bm9sbb+5JcsHV comment...

in plain text, and not embedded in HTML. ssh-keygen (for Unix-like operating systems) and PuTTYgen (for Windows-family operating systems)^[1]^[2] are examples of programs that can generate a key for you.

↑ OpenSSH under Linux cannot read ppk files generated by PuTTY under Windows. When you got commit access granted and want to use the ssh-add command to add your private key as identity, and when you see "Bad passphrase, try again for /path/my.key:" then you may need to reload your ppk key using PuTTYgen and export it as OpenSSH key:
PuTTYgen → Conversions → Export OpenSSH key (source)
↑ "Dealing with Private Keys in Other Formats" - article about the different private key formats of PuTTY, OpenSSH, and ssh.com and how to convert between them

[1] OpenSSH under Linux cannot read ppk files generated by PuTTY under Windows. When you got commit access granted and want to use the ssh-add command to add your private key as identity, and when you see "Bad passphrase, try again for /path/my.key:" then you may need to reload your ppk key using PuTTYgen and export it as OpenSSH key:
PuTTYgen → Conversions → Export OpenSSH key (source)

[2] "Dealing with Private Keys in Other Formats" - article about the different private key formats of PuTTY, OpenSSH, and ssh.com and how to convert between them

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