allow_read authentication

[Conrad Shultz]

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Hello,

(As this is my first post, I'll briefly introduce myself as a mercurial
novice who is working to transition from CVS.  I have a great deal of
experience with Linux, command line operations, etc.)

I was hoping someone can tell me what I am doing wrong or if I have
found a bug.  I have been running open-pull, restricted-push mercurial
repositories for some time with hgwebdir.cgi and have not had a problem.

Recently it has been necessary to setup read-restricted repositories as
well.  The central server hosting the repository is running mercurial
1.3.1 from Debian/testing, so I configured allow_read per the manpage
and in a manner identical to that for allow_push.  This did indeed
remove the repository in question from the web interface.

- From a client that had cloned the repository before I added the
allow_read restriction I am still able to push changes and get prompted
for authentication in the usual manner.

HOWEVER, I cannot pull changes or clone the repository; authentication
fails without any prompt.  E.g., attempting to clone the repository
"Formula" off my central server onto the local client ("chlorine") gives
results as follow:



chlorine:develop shultzc$ hg clone https://(server address)/hg/Formula
destination directory: Formula
requesting all changes
abort: authorization failed



FWIW, I'm using the latest stable mercurial build 1.3.1 on MacOS
10.6/Snow Leopard.  Identical behavior is observed using the mercurial
client on the Debian box hosting the repository.

The manpage has not been helpful, nor have Google searches.  What do I
need to do to get clone/pull to prompt for credentials?

Thanks in advance.

- --
Conrad Shultz
conrad at catalyzethis.com

"Beets are a very misunderstood vegetable."

- - Capt. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Equilibrium"
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