[cvsnt] Re: Tortoise CVS not asking for password

[Andreas Tscharner]

Guy Bowden wrote:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: Error reading from server Father: -1: Unknown error

Somewhere between 2.0.51 and 2.0.58 the error messages from SSPI 
connections changed. Now in 2.0.58d they were the same as Windows gives 
them to CVS.
As TortoiseCVS triggers for certain messages from CVS output, it is at 
the moment not able to catch the correct message and ask for the 
password (it is filed as bug in TortoiseCVS). It gets even worse if you 
have a server running in an other language than english, because the 
error message is localized.

As a workaround, you can either
cvs login
from the command line (maybe with the correct options, see the CVS 
manual) or do what I did:
Start the CVS password agent from the CVSNT package. This is a good 
thing for less CVS-trained users as it pops up as soon as the password 
is needed.

As a permanent solution I suggested to return different error codes, but 
that seems to be a lot of work and will take some time...

Best regards
	Andreas
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Andreas Tscharner                          andreas.tscharner at metromec.ch
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