CVS won't allow "root" to commit changes
 

I am trying CVS for the first time and I am following a tutorial. When I try to commit my changes I get the message "root" not permited to commit changes. Why is this happening?

That's hard to tell since you're not letting us in on any of the details. How do you access the repository? Locally? Through a pserver? Have you set up a chrooted environment that only specific users can access? Error messages?


Håkan

Starting from scratch:

$ export CVSROOT=/cvs
$ cvs init
$ cvs checkout CVSROOT
$ cvs edit config
$ cvs commit config
cvs [commit aborted]: 'root' is not allowed to commit files

Add "root" to a line of its own to the $CVSROOT/CVS/writers file. Create it if it doesn't exist. Read the "Cederqvist", the CVS manual and specifically read up on the part under "The repository".

Håkan