Patrick requested him to be added because he wanted to reset server root passwords. And he did receive several email reset confirmations. Whether the email is his personal email or work email, it shouldn't matter. It's the same email that he use to receive the confirmations and all Bitcoinica sensitive emails.
According to zhou, Patrick's email was added at Patrick's request to reset passwords. I can't believe Bitcoin Consultancy doesn't have their story straight this late in the game, and we are still seeing communication failures among their team.
Why would I need that? I already had the password for rackspace.
Indeed I had recently reset the root password for one of the virtual machines by using that password.
I can understand how this might be slightly confusing so I'll clarify.
There are two password reset mechanisms at rackspace.
One is for the rackspace control panel, this sends you an email with a password reset link, I had no use for this.
The second is for the root password of the virtual machines, this is accessible from the control panel, this is what I had used.
Thanks for the clarification. And good decision restricting genjix from root access, I also hope there aren't any local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities on machines where he's left SSH keys!
Best of luck with returning deposits, I hope you can accelerate the process soon once the "puzzle" starts coming together.