421170 - Do I still have CVS access?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Repository Account Requests, task)

Description

[Colin Blake]

Hi,

I used to have CVS access to the Mozilla source tree for updates. I haven't used
my CVS account for several years and today tried to use it, but with no success.

R:\test>set cvs
CVS_RSH=ssh

R:\test>cvs -d :pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot co -r MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH mozilla/client.mk
cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.mozilla.org:2401 failed: Connection timed out

R:\test>

I can checkout using anonymous@cvs-mirror so I don't think it's firewall
issues etc on this end.

Can you please verify if my account is still active?

Thanks.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

We no longer use :pserver for connecting with individual accounts (just for anonymous checkouts). You'll likely need to attach your public key.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Public key was added in bug 325489

just drop the :pserver: bit and you should be fine, if your account wasn't dropped due to inactivity...

Comment 3

[Colin Blake]

Still not working. Should I be able to ping cvs.mozilla.org, because I can't:

R:\test>cvs -d [e-mail]:/cvsroot co -r MOZILLA_1_8_BR
ANCH mozilla/client.mk
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot connect to socket: Connection timed out

R:\test>ping cvs.mozilla.org

Pinging dm-cvs01.mozilla.org [63.245.208.155] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 63.245.208.155:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

R:\test>ping cvs-mirror.mozilla.org

Pinging cvs-mirror.glb.mozilla.com [63.245.209.14] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 63.245.209.14: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=244
Reply from 63.245.209.14: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=244
Reply from 63.245.209.14: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=244
Reply from 63.245.209.14: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 63.245.209.14:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 6ms, Maximum = 7ms, Average = 6ms

R:\test>

Comment 4

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Still not working. Should I be able to ping cvs.mozilla.org, because I can't:

No, you should not be able to ping cvs.

Comment 5

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Still not working. Should I be able to ping cvs.mozilla.org, because I can't:
> 
> R:\test>cvs -d [e-mail]:/cvsroot co -r
> MOZILLA_1_8_BR
> ANCH mozilla/client.mk
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot connect to socket: Connection timed out

I suspect your client isn't using ssh to connect and I'm not sure how to set that in Windows (unix used the CVS_RSH environment variable). 

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

You currently have access to the /www tree but not to the /cvsroot tree. What most likely happened is that you never provided an ssh key when the move from pserver to ssh occurred, so your account was disabled for /cvsroot. I cannot find any CVS account request bug showing where you were granted access and who exactly vouched for you, but it looks like leaf originally set you up with access to /cvsroot on 1999-09-07.

Since we have no record of the original vouching and such (due to lack of a bug), you'll probably at least need to get somebody to vouch for you for your access to be restored.

Comment 7

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

His account isn't disabled and if it were the error wouldn't be a connection timeout - I'd expect to see authentication errors.  

In fact, I already compared the key in bug 325489 to what he has in CVS - they match.  

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

"Cannot connect to socket" implies that you're still trying to use pserver. 
Did you get the CVS_RSH=ssh into your environment correctly?  Also, appears
you're on Windows...  last I heard Windows still didn't come with an ssh
client, so if you have one it's probably not in a "standard" location, so you
might have to spell out the full path to it in the CVS_RSH variable instead of
just saying "ssh".  For example CVS_RSH="C:\Application Files\PuTTY\plink.exe"
or somesuch.  I don't use windows though, someone who actually does might have
a better answer.

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter7.html#plink-cvs might be helpful

Comment 10

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Assuming you can get your cvs client talking over ssh, Reed's right - your account is disabled elsewhere.

Comment 11

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I'll vouch for Colin, if that's still needed.

Comment 12

[timeless]

i'll vouch....

Comment 13

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Due to a recent overhaul of the committer's agreement, we are requiring new forms be sent for accounts that have yet to be created, even if you have already filled out and submitted the old CVS Contributor Form. Please download the form at http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/committer/committers-agreement.pdf and submit it according to the directions specified at http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/notification/. We apologize for this necessary inconvenience. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks!

Comment 14

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Colin - Is access still needed? If so we need the updated Committer's agreement per Comment 13 in order to proceed.

Comment 15

[Colin Blake]

I just faxed over the completed form.

Comment 16

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Erica if you could confirm the form receipt that would be great.

Comment 17

[Erica McClure]

I have received Colin's Committer's Agreement.

Comment 18

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Over to server-ops - please confirm that Colin still has CVS access. Sorry for the delay.

Comment 19

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

(In reply to comment #18)
> Over to server-ops - please confirm that Colin still has CVS access. Sorry for
> the delay.

Appears to - 

colin%theblakes.com:x:918:302::/cvsdisk/jail/users/colin%theblakes.com:/usr/local/bin/anoncvssh

Re-open if you're having problems connecting.