running CVS as root or not?

[Aditya . Sanghi]

Hi!

I am using CVS 1.10 with pserver on AIX 4.3

The system administrator at my site prefers not to run cvs as root.
In /etc/inetd.conf
we got

"cvspserver stream tcp nowait cvsowner /usr/local/bin/cvs cvs
--allow-root=/usr/local/newrepos pserver"

note the use of "cvsowner" instead of "root".

What are the pro/cons of running CVS as root/a user account?
The repository is owned by the "cvsowner" user.


Mucho thanks,
aditya