Re: Accessing Remore repository as root

[Larry Jones]

Sankar Das writes:
> 
>   Now I want to know that if it possible to access remote
>  repository as 'root' from local machine. I have permission
>  to login as a root in remote machine. My problem
>  is that I can checkout the files but couldn't 'commit'.

Committing as root is generally reguarded as a very bad idea because
root is almost always a shared account and thus there's no way to know
which actual person committed the change.  CVS goes out of its way to
try to pin down an actual user name (e.g., if you log in as yourself and
then su to root, CVS will find the name you logged in as and allow the
commit to go through as that user), but if it can't, it disallows the
commit.  If you're sure you really want to allow it, you can comment out
the #define of CVS_BADROOT in options.h.  (You may have to do that on
the server as well as the client, I'm not sure off hand.)

-Larry Jones

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