>I think there might be a legitimate reason to commit files as root. I'm
>in the middle of attempting to put my system configuration files (this
>/etc/*) into CVS. These files are owned by root, managed by root, etc.
>but I'd still like to have a root-only repository that will allow me to
>make changes as root. I can see problems with allowing root to use
>something like :pserver: where the root password is flying around in the
>clear but for a local repository I really don't see any problems.
If you use pserver and log into cvs with another user name there
should be no problem. Of course, you wouldn't want a lot of people
updating /etc/*, but as you mentioned if it were a single-login
cvs repository it should be OK.
Please keep us posted on your progress, this sounds like a very
useful thing to keep CM controlled.
Mark.
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