Re: Problem with admin privileges

[Larry Jones]

Julian Opificius writes:
> 
> That's the confusing thing; "id" tells me I'm a member of cvsadmin. Is 
> there any restriction about userid range? I'm 1000, cvsadmin group is 502.

In that case, my guess is that you're not using your account, you're
using the generic "cvs" account (you say all of your CVS users are
mapped to the same "cvs" system user and it's the system user that has
to be in the cvsadmin group).  Mapping all of your CVS users to the same
system user destroys any system-level security or accountability since
everyone appears to be the same user.  If you have SSH access to the
system, you're much better off using it directly in :ext: mode as
individual system users rather than tunnelling pserver and mapping
everyone to the same user.

-Larry Jones

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-- Calvin