Re: RCI (co -l)

[Aaron S. Hawley]

A different question but with, I believe, the same answer was asked a 
few months
ago:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-rcs/2006-07/msg00005.html

Your sentence, "We have restricted the use of co and ci to a superuser 
function,
to prevent accidental deletion", sounded counter-intuitive.  I've never 
used RCS
with groups, though.

Quoting Mike Galvin <address@hidden>:

> I have  a question regarding the co command in RCS.  We are a large 
> organization with several developers who are checking out files from 
> RCS.  We would like to see who has locked the file if it is already 
> checked out.  As I understand, the command already does this with 
> -l...our problem is that we have restricted the use of co and ci to a 
> superuser function, to prevent accidental deletion, and co stores the 
> superuser Id instead of the developers user Id.  Is there a way that 
> we can retrieve the developers original user ID for the co command?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Galvin (address@hidden)
> Software Administration
> OIT/CCO University of Minnesota
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