IntelliJ PAM Authentication Failure on CVS Update after updating password

Question

When I'm forced to change my Windows AD account password IntelliJ is no longer able to perform any CVS action (e.g. update) on any checked out class files.

Right-click on class file->CVS->Update Then the Messages console appears with "Error: Authentication failed. Response from server was: PAM authenticate error: Authentication failure"

I manage to workaround this by clearing the .cvspass file referenced under Settings->Version Control->CVS. It doesn't feel like a very elegant solution. I would have expected a prompt of some sort to re-enter my new password.

Is this the only way to getting cvs to work after updating the password?

Bugleweed

I never came across this myself. I always got the password prompt again, but a college working with the same setup encountered this too. solved it by removing the .cvspass-file. – Germen

I've not found an answer yet, but I did find a compromise (somewhat). No need to delete the entire .cvspass file. I just open it and remove the line that has the repo that's giving me problems at the time. I suspect they would all give me authentication problems, but since I work on one project for weeks/months, I dont even notice. Sad that this happens though. – Bugleweed

@user706837 - please post this as an answer, this will help others encountering the issue. – Abrahan

Answer 1

I did find a compromise (somewhat). No need to delete the entire .cvspass file. I just open it and remove the line that has the repo that's giving me problems at the time.

Bugleweed

To access the .cvspass run the following command %userprofile%\.cvspass. P.S. .cvspass file can be found under users folder e.g. C:\Users\user-name\.cvspass – Incursive