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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:50:42 +0100, Kevin Jones wrote: > OK, I've fixed this. > > In the admin tool, if I turn off impersonation it works fine. I assume > that CVS is now running as SYSTEM whereas before it was trying to > impersonate whoever was logging in. > > Is this good or bad? It depends on your environment. Any scripts (loginfo, commitinfo, etc.) are now running as System which is a very powerful user - potentially a bug in such a script could result in someone gaining administrator priviliges. It's not such a problem in a closed environment as generally you trust anyone who has access to the server, but I wouldn't let a server sit on the internet with such a configuration. Tony