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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:54:29 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@overcee.netplex.com.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/cvs/src commit.c
Message-ID:  <19991101115429.H51160@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <19991025094722.50443@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:47:22AM -0600
References:  <199910250624.XAA66308@freefall.freebsd.org> <19991025094722.50443@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>

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On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:47:22AM -0600, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 October 1999 at 23:24:11 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > peter       1999/10/24 23:24:11 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     contrib/cvs/src      commit.c
> >   Log:
> >   If running on the client side of a remote commit, don't reject root when
> >   trying to do a commit.  The server side will use the correct name, and the
> >   client side restriction is just an annoyance.
> 
> Do you mean the contents of CVS/Root?

I mean, doing this as root (uid 0):

cvs -d peter@freefall.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs checkout foo
cd foo
<hack hack>
cvs commit
<fails with:  "you cannot commit files as root" even though the server is
running as "peter">

Sure, don't run as root etc on a client but when you've got a throw-away
client installation with no users other than root, it's just a pest. :-)

-Peter


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