Cameron, Steve writes:
>
> So maybe it will work after all, if you run CVS as root.
> (though this surely defeat any security gained by
> keeping passwds in /etc/security/passwd)
I'm not sure what you mean by that. The idea of shadow passwords is to
keep people who aren't root from being able to read them. Running cvs
as root doesn't defeat that, cvs only runs as root long enough to check
the password, then it switches to running as the user.
-Larry Jones
The game's called on account of sudden death. -- Calvin
