[Slackbuilds-users] Private SSH key in the slackbuilds repository

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 00:55:00 UTC 2013


> As a consequence GitHub is now sending out notifications to all
> affected users. If you have the slackbuilds repository mirrored
> on GitHub it might be that you'll get such a notification as well.
> The file in question is network/freenx/config/nomachine.id_dsa.key.
>
> This key is the default key shipped with all NX clients, it's up
> to the admin to decide to use a different one. But even if you
> use the default key it's only used for the initial handshake, you
> still need a valid user account after.
>
> As such you can safely ignore the notification from GitHub. There
> comes no harm from having this key publicly in our repo.

Ah... i just got that one too yesterday :)

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