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Re: Won't let me "cvs commit config"
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Mark D. Baushke |
Subject: |
Re: Won't let me "cvs commit config" |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:33:50 -0700 |
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twoeyedhuman1111 <address@hidden> writes:
> When I tried to "cvs edit config", nothing showed up, and when I tried
> to "cvs commit config" it said "root" is not allowed to edit files.
> Does anyone know what's wrong?
Be default cvs is configured with --disable-rootcommit which defines
CVS_BADROOT for the build and disallows the user 'root' from doing a
'cvs commit' or any other write operations. You can configure and
rebuild your cvs executable to allow root to do commits, but it is not
the default.
Enjoy!
-- Mark
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