i know what that paragraph is saying, but read it again with newbie to 
fossil eyes and there is a very real chance that confusion will set in..

shouldn't the permissions system be setup so it would read.. "I've set 
it up so that _anybody_ can clone"

*** markdown included intentionally - i couldn't help myself :)

On 30/11/2009 12:57 PM, Will Duquette wrote:
> I thought that might be the case, but I wasn't sure.  I've set
> it up so that nobody can clone.  Alternatively, you can log in
> as anonymous and use the Zip Archive link on the Leaf page.
> Or you can download glue.kit.
>
> Will
>
> On Nov 29, 2009, at 6:32 PM, chi wrote:
>
>    
>>
>> Will Duquette wrote:
>>      
>>> Anonymous can clone it, according to the Users page.  I've not tried
>>> that myself.
>>>
>>>        
>> Hmmm ... if I try, fossil means, that anonymous have no rights to
>> clone
>> the repository. If you look onto the User page, what password user
>> anonymous posses? Perhaps it is some hex value, then cloning is not
>> very
>> easy ;-)
>>
>> In the past, if a repository was new  created, every anonymous got the
>> password 'anonymous'. But since some time, every new created
>> repository
>> get a random password for anonymous. If I do not know this, I cannot
>> clone the repos despite the permission.
>>
>> If this is the case, you would have either to change and publish the
>> anonymous password for users that would like to clone (the login
>> password for anonymous will still be generated automatically to be
>> different for every login), or you would have to allow user nobody to
>> clone ...
>>
>> Ciao,
>> chi.
>>
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