> http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html  shows the 'cvs update' command being
> run by root ("#" shell prompt), and I wouldn't expect any non-root user
> to have write permission to /usr/src anyway.  So... why is doing the
> cvs-update as root a bad idea?

Is this a kind of bad joke? Running anything as root unless it
absolutely requires root privileges is a bad idea. Put yourself in the
wsrc group, and you'll be able to write into /usr/src.

Miod

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