Re: pserver question

[Larry Jones]

Furmaniuk, Michael writes:
> 
>   I know the passwd file is updated, I have had the new passwd file checkout
> with CVSROOT, I've deleted the directory and checked it out again to get the
> file.  When I have done the update the changes show up there.

But it's $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd that's significant to CVS, not
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd,v which is what you checkout.  passwd is *NOT*
intended to be managed by CVS (doing so creates numerous security
problems), so the version in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd is not
automatically updated when you check in changes like the other
administrative files are (unless you've added it to checkoutlist).

-Larry Jones

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people. -- Calvin