Re: cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'

[Tobias Weingartner]

On Monday, April 3, Donald Sharp wrote:
> 
> There is no right answer.  cvs was designed to not allow the root user
> to do cvs commands.  This has to do with the philosophy about why you
> shouldn't run as root unless you have to.  It also goes into the level
> of trust that you are willing to let one 'root' user have on another 
> machine.  If you are so set on running as root go into the source and 
> remove the check to see who you are running as, because obviously you 
> know best....  In any event you will be running a unsupportable version
> of the cvs source base

I may be wrong, but I believe there are other reasons that 'root' is not
allowed to use cvs.  I believe that they involve locking and such.

--Toby.