PreservePermissions variable

[Jeeva Sarma]

Hi
I saw in the cvs
manual(http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_15.html
and
http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_18.html#SEC173)
that setting the variable PreservePermissions in
config file enables support for saving special device
files, symbolic links, file permissions and ownerships
in the repository.Is this enough to use symbolic links
in CVS?Are there any problems I should be aware of?
It also says that setting this variable means users
have to be root to do cvs operations.Is this for all
cvs operations?Is this necessary in case of remote
users on windows too?How can this be achieved?

Thanks,
Jeeva Sarma

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