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Hello Richard, Thursday, April 21, 2005, 4:39:21 PM, you wrote: RK> Just tried a 'cvs admin -m' command (via graph|change log RK> message) to change a log message and got: RK> cvs [server aborted]: usage is restricted to repository administrators RK> How do I tell cvs that I am the administrator ? RK> Cederqvist says Unix cvs has a cvsadmin group but that WinNT RK> doesn't, but I'm using Windows (server is under Server 2003, RK> client is XP) and it obviously does. I've added a group cvsadmin, RK> with me in it, but that hasn't made it work. RK> Actually, now found the entry in CvsNt manual. It appears RK> I'd need to be in the Administrators group, which I don't want to RK> be. Is there any other way of getting the admin command without RK> this potentially dangerous step ? create a file named 'admin' in your repository/CVSROOT and add all the users you want to be cvsadmins (one per line) - that's it. -- Best regards, Richard mailto:r.wirth at wirthware.de