problem with Mercurial interacting with the central repository

[Greg Ward]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Grazia Russo Lassner
<grussola at longview-inc.com> wrote:
> I have installed Mercurial 1.7.1 (64-bit exe) on my Windows machine running
> with Windows 7.
>
> When I try to connect to the central repository, which is on a DoD server, I
> get the prompt to enter my password constantly, and I cannot bypass that.
>  Moreover, when I attempt to close my cigwyn screen (from where I called the
> hg command), just before closing, the DoD banner cames up, but the
> connection gets lost.

Which protocol are you using -- SSH or HTTP?

Do you have the same problem connecting to other servers running Mercurial?

Exactly what command are you running, and what output are you seeing?
If you are getting a banner from the remote server when doing
hg-over-ssh, the remote server is misconfigured.  Mercurial tries to
workaround that kind of misconfiguration, but there's only so much it
can do.  What do you get if you run "ssh <server> /bin/true"?  (Err,
I'm assuming the server is running Unix...)

Greg