[Nut-upsdev] Problems checking out SVN repository

[Peter Selinger]

I have had similar problems (no .ssh directory, password is often only
accepted on the third try).

In my case, these is a strange additional problem: on the host
svn.debian.org, my own home directory is not owned by me, but by
someone named jdassen:

selinger-guest at costa:~$ whoami
selinger-guest
selinger-guest at costa:~$ pwd
/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/selinger-guest
selinger-guest at costa:~$ ls -ld $HOME
drwxr-xr-x  2 jdassen users 4096 May  8  2005 /var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/selinger-guest
selinger-guest at costa:~$ 

Therefore, I was unable to create the .ssh directory. I wrote to
root at svn.debian.org about this, but I suspect it is not an attended
email address, and I was too lazy to do research on whom to contact. 

-- Peter

Charles Lepple wrote:
> 
> On 2/23/06, Arjen de Korte <nut+devel at de-korte.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, so I'm trying to checkout the development branch with:
> > >
> > >     svn checkout svn+ssh://carlosefr-guest@svn.debian.org/svn/nut/trunk
> > >
> > > But it keeps asking me for the password, which is weird for two reasons=
> :
> > >
> > >    1. I submitted a public key to alioth, which I was using
> > > successfully to access the cvs repository;
> > >    2. It refuses my password.
> > >
> > > Anybody else having problems, or is it just me?
> >
> > Exactly the above has frustrated me too, to the point where I'm about to
> > give up any effort in trying to make this svn thing work. I even changed
> > my password (just in case I might have mistaken it) to no avail. Curious
> > thing is, that I can still checkout via cvs, which doesn't prompt me for =
> a
> > password (like it is supposed to, since I also submitted a public key).
> > :-(
> 
> Arjen,
> 
> Sorry to hear about the difficulties. Please let us know when things
> like this come up - we can't fix things if we don't know they are
> broken.
> 
> If you can fix it by creating the .ssh directory, setting permissions
> to 0600 and manually synchronizing your keys, then we need to let the
> Alioth admins know that automatic synchronization is broken.
> 
> --
> - Charles Lepple
> 
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