> 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