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I'm trying to do

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.r-project.org:/home/rcvs/src login

and I get "authorization failed...rejected access" with the previously
advertised password (anoncvs). Has the access been changed or is anyone
else having this problem? I'm not very familiar with cvs so I may be
making some mistake.

Paul Gilbert

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PaulG> I'm trying to do cvs -d
    PaulG> :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.r-project.org:/home/rcvs/src login

    PaulG> and I get "authorization failed...rejected access" with the
    PaulG> previously advertised password (anoncvs). Has the access been
    PaulG> changed or is anyone else having this problem? I'm not very
    PaulG> familiar with cvs so I may be making some mistake.

hmm,  I thought we finally *didn't* allow anonymous cvs,
{one reason being the log files publicity?},

but rather recommend and advertize  rsync (which also works for CRAN, btw).

I have cron jobs calling shell scripts like

#---------------------------------------
RSYNC=/usr/local/bin/rsync

cd /usr/local/app/R/R-devel
$RSYNC -Cuvrlt --delete rsync.r-project.org::r-devel .
cd /usr/local/app/R/R-release-patched
$RSYNC -Cuvrlt --delete rsync.r-project.org::r-release-patched .
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rsync   is available in  Linux ("any newer distribution", probably),
or from

   ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync/

Excerpts from its README:
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Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
We were providing anonymous cvs access in addition to anonymous rsync
access but now the configuration for the anonymous pserver account
seems to be botched up.  I don't know enough about the anonymous cvs
setup to fix it right now and don't have time to learn about it.  If
Tony Rossini or Duncan Temple Lang have time to fix it, we'll get it
fixed.  Otherwise I recommend we discontinue anonymous cvs.  

Most everything people want from anonymous cvs can be accomplished
much more cleanly with anonymous rsync.  The only advantages of
anonymous cvs are for people who do want to read the log files or want
to check out copies of earlier versions.

Since any checkouts by the anonymous user must be able to update the
history files, the anonymous CVS tree is actually a copy of the
production CVS tree.  

I would recommend using anonymous rsync.
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On 6 Jan 2000, Douglas Bates wrote:

            
I just tried the login  and checkout commands 
(from an account on a machine that knows nothing about
franz/cvs.r-project.org) and they seem to be working fine.

Did somebody fix things? If not, shall I remove the
anonymous CVS access and we only allow rsync.

D.

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DTL> I just tried the login and checkout commands (from an account
    DTL> on a machine that knows nothing about
    DTL> franz/cvs.r-project.org) and they seem to be working fine.

    DTL> Did somebody fix things? 

I did.

best,
-tony