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Daniel Hedge wrote: > If you are managing the contents of the configuration files in /etc > for instance a change in ownerships when you try to rollback to a > previous version would be catastrophic. Or managing the changes to teh > contents of a webserver for another. You really don't want to make /etc into a sandbox. Plus for the sake of security it is a really bad idea to run a sandbox as root (it is in fact impossible to commit files as root). I wouldn't be prepared to support such usage. Many people manage webservers using cvs/cvsnt. This is handled easily using postcommit scripts. File ownership just isn't an issue - everyone has their own sandboxes and manages their own copy of the system. The global copy needs to be writable for cvs users of course but once under source control no editing is done on the site itself. There is simply no way of doing this on any normal OS anyway... the OS specifically stops you from creating files under a user other than yourself, to stop people using others' quotas. Tony