Re: 'readers' file not respected on CVS (1.10.7) server machine

[Larry Jones]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> I created $CVSROOT/cvsroot/readers to include 'qauser'.
> 
> Updates (cvs commit) are disallowed correctly from another machine 
> but still work when initiated from the server machine housing the CVS 
> repository.
> 
> The value of CVSROOT is identical and the Unix user is the same 
> (qauser) :-
> 
> $ echo $CVSROOT
> $ :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot

Most likely you tried the commit on the local machine from a working
directory that was already checked out locally -- $CVSROOT is ignored if
./CVS/Root exists.

-Larry Jones

Apparently I was misinformed. -- Calvin