Using authentication By default, access to the Android source code is anonymous. To protect theservers against excessive usage, each IP address is associated with a quota.
When sharing an IP address with other users (e.g. when accessing the sourcerepositories from beyond a NAT firewall), the quotas can trigger even forregular usage patterns (e.g. if many users sync new clients from the same IPaddress within a short period).
In that case, it is possible to use authenticated access, which then usesa separate quota for each user, regardless of the IP address.
The first step is to create a password fromthe password generator andto save it in~/.netrc according to the instructions on that page.
The second step is to force authenticated access, by using the followingmanifest URI:https://android.googlesource.com/a/platform/manifest. Noticehow the/a/ directory prefix triggers mandatory authentication. You canconvert an existing client to use mandatory authentication with the followingcommand:
