> 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.
>
[smc] ok, well maybe I shouldn't have said that then...sorry.
