[cvsnt] cvs administration

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Wed Apr 9 23:27:54 BST 2003


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:45:01 -0500, "Mike Bechtold"
<mbechtold at baneng.com> wrote:

>I'm a little unsure why the users need full control of
>the CVSROOT.  I think I might be certain files need this setting.  But I
>though I needed to be leant
>
Not needed (or advisable). You can set CVSROOT as readonly for all
except the admins. But you have to set the *file* history as
read/write for normal users as well.
AFAICT this is the only file a normal user will ever need to modify in
CVSROOT, but it gets modified on every commit.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)


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