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On Fri, 28 May 2004 11:55:04 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler <lists at connectionbrazil.com> wrote: >I have a system with some restricted permissions, and I'm getting this >result (using the sspi protocol with cvsnt 2.0.41a): > >e:\test>cvs -t checkout Module/Test >D:\Programs\CVS\CVSNT\cvs.exe -t checkout Module/Test > -> Tracelevel set to 1. PID is 3992 > -> Session ID is f9840b74b8b0000 > -> main loop with CVSROOT=:sspi:user at gedesk:/projects > -> Encryption enabled > -> Requesting server cvsignore > -> Requesting server cvswrappers > -> Requesting server cvsrc (read-cvsrc2) >S -> do_module(Module/Test, Updating, , ) >cvs [server aborted]: Cannot check out files into the repository itself > >When I do the same as me myself, it works. But I am the admin on the >server. When I login as any of the restricted users, I get the above. The >odd thing is that it used to work; I don't know what has changed. (I did >update cvsnt on both client and server, but it's been a while since I last >tested this so I don't know whether this is related to it.) > That error can only happen if the directory you're in at the moment is the CVSROOT - it's just a string compare with the current root and the current directory (not even a particularly robust one... it's case sensitive for example). Could it be that your temp directory is pointing to the repository? Tony