Hi Tony,

> > If you look at the CVSNT changelog, you will see that Tony
> changed "cvs
> > admin" so that it can only be executed by users in the
> Administrators
> > group. I assume that means that you must be an administrator on the
> > machine local to the cvs server.
>
> If SystemAuth=Yes, then yes, otherwise only the admin file is
> consulted.

>From your sentence I understand that with SystemAuth=Yes
cvs admin can be invoked _both_ by administrators of the
local machine _and_ by users listed in the admin file.
Is this correct? That would be good, but, as I wrote in my
previous post, it seems that either the admin file is
_not_ consulted or I am missing something. Could you please
help me on this issue?

> It's a pain in the neck to set up and you just get lots of people
> complaining that cvs is broken because it doesn't say they are an
> administrator when they are... (been there, done that).
>
> If you put users in the admin file they can be cvs admins
> without being
> domain admins, which achieves what most people seem to want.

I agree with you, the admin file approach would be sufficient (and
efficient) for my purposes, if I could make it work.

Thanks in advance,

Alberto Barbati

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