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CVS Login Failing

by Demolishun · in Torque Game Engine · 04/24/2004 (10:06 am) · 4 replies

I cannot login to CVS to download torque. Here are the commands I run:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:username@cvs.garagegames.com:/cvs/torque

cvs get -P torque

I also have cvs -z9 defined in .cvsrc.

I get the following error messages:

Fatal error, aborting.
demolishun: authentication failed

It never prompts me for a password either.

Thanks,
Frank
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    Associate Kyle Carter
    #1
    04/24/2004 (10:19 am)
    You should not be usin Z9. You should be using Z3.

    Torque Owner Demolishun
    DemolishunConsulting Rocks!
    #2
    04/24/2004 (6:54 pm)
    It still fails even when I changed to z3. It never even prompts me for a password, then tells me the authentication fails.

    Associate Kyle Carter
    #3
    04/24/2004 (10:03 pm)
    Are you replacing username with your name?

    Have you done a cvs login, too?

    Torque Owner Demolishun
    DemolishunConsulting Rocks!
    #4
    04/24/2004 (10:42 pm)
    Yes, I am replacing the username with my username.

    I just took another look at it and did this:
    cvs -t get -P torque

    This gave me some more information on what was going on. I tried to make it fail by changing the download archive to this:

    export CVSROOT=:pserver:username@cvs.garagegames.com:/cvs/Torque

    instead of this:

    export CVSROOT=:pserver:username@cvs.garagegames.com:/cvs/torque

    This said I should try using "login". So I tried an explicit login. It worked just fine after that. To make a long story short, please add the the '-t' parameter to the instructions so a person using CVS can "see" what is going on, and add the instructions to use the "login" function of CVS explicitly. I got the idea in my head that CVS would automagically prompt me. Maybe it does on other programs, but apparently the command line version I have does not. That way idiot newbies don't bug you. Little details like this can take hours to decypher. I had even done this before and I could not remember! :)

    BTW Mr. Garney, thanks for the help. I know sometimes you just want to strangle the guy posting questions sometimes, and I commend you for your professionalism. Also, here is a great quote from my sister concerning online communication:

    "I didn't realize I had tranmitted an emotion with that email."

    Thanks again, I am good to go,
    Frank