[cvsnt] (no subject)

[Richard Wirth]

Hello Richard,

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:39:21 PM, you wrote:


RK> Just tried a 'cvs admin -m' command (via graph|change log
RK> message) to change a log message and got:

RK> cvs [server aborted]: usage is restricted to repository administrators

RK> How do I tell cvs that I am the administrator ?
RK> Cederqvist says Unix cvs has a cvsadmin group but that WinNT
RK> doesn't, but I'm using Windows (server is under Server 2003,
RK> client is XP) and it obviously does.  I've added a group cvsadmin,
RK> with me in it, but that hasn't made it work.

RK> Actually, now found the entry in CvsNt manual.  It appears
RK> I'd need to be in the Administrators group, which I don't want to
RK> be.  Is there any other way of getting the admin command without
RK> this potentially dangerous step ?

create a file named 'admin' in your repository/CVSROOT and add all the
users you want to be cvsadmins (one per line) - that's it.

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Best regards,
 Richard                            mailto:r.wirth at wirthware.de