Anonymous CVS access

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:

The CVS server seems to be working again, but logging in with an empty
password doesn't work. The web interface to anonymous CVS doesn't
work either.

[bruno@bruno bruno]$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org)
CVS password:
/projects/cvsroot: no such repository
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.postgresql.org rejected access

Yeah, I'm still getting failures on cvsup also:

# cvsup -L 2 /root/postgres.cvsup
Parsing supfile "/root/postgres.cvsup"
Connecting to cvsup.postgresql.org
Cannot connect to cvsup.postgresql.org: Connection refused
Will retry at 21:14:17

Joe

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:

The CVS server seems to be working again, but logging in with an empty
password doesn't work. The web interface to anonymous CVS doesn't
work either.

[bruno@bruno bruno]$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org)
CVS password:
/projects/cvsroot: no such repository
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.postgresql.org rejected access

I believe the intention is to get rid of the separate anoncvs mirror and
make anoncvs access go directly to the primary archive. This will have
two good effects: eliminate the synchronization delay between primary
and anoncvs repositories, and eliminate the (bogus) difference in
cvsroot paths, which creates unnecessary diffs between what committers
and noncommitters see in their checkouts. The bad effect is that
noncommitters will have to re-check-out from the correct repository
path, which is just /cvsroot.

We're not quite there yet, because the anoncvs user isn't turned on:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/cvsroot login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org)
CVS password:
Fatal error, aborting.
anoncvs: no such user
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.postgresql.org rejected access

but that's my understanding of what Marc plans to do next.

regards, tom lane

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:34:08PM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

The CVS server seems to be working again, but logging in with an empty
password doesn't work. The web interface to anonymous CVS doesn't
work either.

The cvsup server also looked dead when I tried it a couple of hours ago.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La conclusion que podemos sacar de esos estudios es que
no podemos sacar ninguna conclusion de ellos" (Tanenbaum)

The CVS server seems to be working again, but logging in with an
empty password doesn't work. The web interface to anonymous CVS
doesn't work either.

[bruno@bruno bruno]$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org)
CVS password:
/projects/cvsroot: no such repository
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.postgresql.org rejected access

I believe the intention is to get rid of the separate anoncvs mirror
and make anoncvs access go directly to the primary archive. This
will have two good effects: eliminate the synchronization delay
between primary and anoncvs repositories, and eliminate the (bogus)
difference in cvsroot paths, which creates unnecessary diffs between
what committers and noncommitters see in their checkouts. The bad
effect is that noncommitters will have to re-check-out from the
correct repository path, which is just /cvsroot.

Actually, they won't have to check things out if they run:

find . -type f -name Root -path '*CVS*' -exec perl -p -i -e 's#:pserver:anoncvs\@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot#:pserver:anoncvs\@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/cvsroot#go' {} \; -print

Moving to consolidating the anoncvs server as the same as the master
repo will have the bad effect of being quite hard on the disks when
people do cvs update's (if anyone cares). Remote updates are quite
inefficient/hard on the cvs server (reason FreeBSD requires committers
to CVSup and use their local copy instead of cvs up'ing off of the
master).

-sc

--
Sean Chittenden

cvsweb.cgi is fixed ... working on the rest tonight ...

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Joe Conway wrote:

(moving to HACKERS)

Bruno Wolff III wrote:

The CVS server seems to be working again, but logging in with an empty
password doesn't work. The web interface to anonymous CVS doesn't
work either.

[bruno@bruno bruno]$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org)
CVS password:
/projects/cvsroot: no such repository
cvs [login aborted]: authorization failed: server anoncvs.postgresql.org rejected access

Yeah, I'm still getting failures on cvsup also:

# cvsup -L 2 /root/postgres.cvsup
Parsing supfile "/root/postgres.cvsup"
Connecting to cvsup.postgresql.org
Cannot connect to cvsup.postgresql.org: Connection refused
Will retry at 21:14:17

Joe

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