Re: "BADROOT"

[Larry Jones]

Anthony Shipman writes:
> 
> It seems the only purpose of the restriction is to prevent the user name
> in the log message being "root".

Exactly.  Since "root" is usually a shared account, if the log message
just says "root" you won't know which real person made the changes. 

> But in subr.c the getcaller() function
> will read LOGNAME or USER which I can set to control the name in the
> log file, if I care.

getcaller() only reads $LOGNAME or $USER if getlogin() fails, which it
shouldn't ever do, provided you've actually logged in at some point.

> So how about getting rid of this restriction?  As root, I would like to
> maintain system configuration files/logs with cvs.

If you want to allow root to commit, just don't define CVS_BADROOT in
options.h. 

-Larry Jones

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. -- Calvin