Extras CVS Access

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue Jun 21 03:29:12 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 23:19 -0400, Hrishikesh Ballal wrote:
> All, 
> I am mailing you regarding my problems with Fedora Extras CVS. I have
> been a web developer but now I do it as a hobby mostly. I can code with
> PHP and am exposed to Wikis. I posted on the fedora-marketing list and I
> was advised to checkout the website out of the CVS and start playing
> with it. I went to fedoraproject.org
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CvsAccess) and applied for a
> Fedoraproject account from there. I read through the documentation and
> also instructions from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/UsingCvsFaq
> and tried to do "cvs co project-web" ... It gave me a permission denied
> (publickey, keyboard-interactive)... i have done everything.. copied the
> fedora.cert file, uploaded my public GPG key on the mit server. I also
> did cat ~/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 
> I still cannot connect to the redhat CVS server. Can you please help me
> out? I have mailed the administrator with no reply.

The .fedora-cert seems to only be needed for uploading big stuff.
When did you upload your public key?
Sometimes it takes a day or two.
Also - are you in the cvs group?




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