> Stuart R Dole writes:
....
> > OK, I'm not root. What's up?
>
> You are root.  Doing a ``cvs login'' does nothing but
verify the
> password and remember it; what user you are for any
> particular operation
> is determined by how cvsroot is set.  In this case, you're
> working in a
> checked-out directory, so cvsroot comes from CVS/Root.

Yes, that was it. I had checked it out as 'root'. I edited
CVS/Root to be myself, and it worked. Thanks!

(We end up being root a lot because we're developing drivers
for embedded systems that happen to use Linux and we're
lazy...)

Many thanks,
Stuart

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