Re: [Savannah-help-public] Problems accessing the gcc CVS repository

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:40:15AM +0200, Martin Reinecke wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:31:43PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 02:12:07PM +0200, Martin Reinecke wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > it appears that after the savannah upgrade yesterday the access to the 
> > > gcc 
> > > CVS repository
> > > has changed (or was broken)
> > > 
> > > My local CVSROOT is :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcc
> > > 
> > > When trying to update my tree I'm asked for anoncvs's password:
> > > 
> > > /scratch/gcc>contrib/gcc_update
> > > Updating CVS tree
> > > address@hidden's password:
> > > 
> > > This was not the case a few days ago, and I was not able to figure out the
> > > proper password.
> > > If this change in behaviour was desired, could you please publish the 
> > > anonymous password
> > > somewhere on gcc.gnu.org?
> > 
> > Michael fixed a permission issue.
> > 
> > It works for me now. It should be ok :)
> 
> Interestingly enough the update works from my home machine where CVS 1.12.11
> is installed, but still not at work where we use CVS 1.11.2. I'll try to
> upgrade and check whether this is a version problem.

We got another of such password issue with an old (2.9) version of
OpenSSH. This is likely to be your case as well.

-- 
Sylvain