[Labs-l] Can't upload SSH key

[Damian Zaremba]

On 04/01/2013 15:23, Russell Blau wrote:
> Hello.  I've got a Labs account (User:Russell Blau), and requested and
> was given shell access.  Today I'm trying to upload my SSH publickey to
> [[Special:NovaKey]], but every time I try I get the error message
> "Failed to import keypair."  I'm pretty sure that the publickey I'm
> using is valid, since I was able to add it to my account on Gerrit
> without any problems.  (To be specific, it's an RSA 2048 bit key,
> generated using puttygen, and I copied and pasted the entire content of
> the Public Key text provided by puttygen into the textbox on
> [[Special:NovaKey]].)
>
> Any idea what is going wrong here?
>
> Also, while I'm here, since I have a space in my user name, should I be
> logging in as "Russell Blau", "Russell_Blau", or "Russell\ Blau"?
>
Could you logout, login and try and import this again? Looking at the 
code this is due to it being unable to modify LDAP.

This should be a temporary issue, so it may work on a second attempt.

- Damian