List subscription/CVS

[José Nuno Coelho Sanarra Pires]

Em Quinta, 30 de Março de 2006 18:04, o Tom Gier escreveu:
Hi, 

I'm having the same problem as well. My status on 'cvsdocs' is also 
'unapproved', so there's no way for me to checkout documentation from CVS.

> Hi,
>
> I have one question and one plea for help:
>
> Question:
> How long does it generally take to confirm a subscription to Fedora-trans
> and Fedora-trans-DE lists? I subscribed to both two or three days ago but
> didn't get an answer yet.
>
> Problem:
> I fee a bit sheepish about this but since I have some spare time and would
> like to start contributing I ask nevertheless:
>
> I can't get CVS check out to work. I checked every resource I could lay my
> hands on but to no avail. I'm sure the solution is right in front of my
> nose but I'm stuck. Here's what I did so far:
>
> I created a Fedora project account and during this uploaded my id_dsa.pub
> file. "All done" was the answer of the project server. Sounded good to me.
>
> Then I set my CVSROOT and CVS_RSH env vars to the following:
>
> CVSROOT=:ext:<my fedora project login>@cvs.fedora.redhat.com:/cvs/docs
>
> CVS_RSH to "ssh"
>
> "cvs co docs" gave "Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).".
> Well ... Google coughed up myriads of hits but nothing apparently helpful.
>
> Some investigations later I ended up trying to be smart and added myself to
> the group "cvsdocs" in my project account with the result that I now have
> an entry in my account stating "cvsdocs [...] unapproved". I'm not to sure
> if this is correct anyway and there's still no luck with "cvs co docs".
>
> I have not the slightest idea what I'm doing wrong or missing. I'm not that
> slow off the mark normally but this is certainly a "Wood and tree" problem.
> Could someone please have pity on me and cut some trees?!
>
> Thanks for your patience.
> Tom

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José Nuno Coelho Pires
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