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bwhicks at aep.com wrote: > > Is this correct? Why? > group and passwd are considered security sensitive, so you can't add them to CVSROOT to avoid people checking them out and getting lists of active users/administrators (and in the passwd case, possibly their passwords too). This is largely historical now that the default permissions for CVSROOT have been improved, since ordinary users can't even see CVSROOT unless the administrator lets them. In recent cvsnt versions the restriction on passwd & group has been relaxed because of this. Tony