Re: Commit/permissions error

[Lee Fellows]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 13:17, Mullican, Catherine wrote:
> I have loads of files checked out as user Foo. A couple of these needed
> tweaking, and now need to be committed. User Foo apparently lacks write
> permission to accomplish this. I've changed my CVSROOT env var to user Bar,
> who should have rights, but when I do 'cvs login', it prompts me for the
> password for Foo. Is there a way to resolve this other than getting the PTB
> to give Foo write permission? (Not out of the question, but the PTB are
> pretty busy, as I understand, so it would be better if I could do
> something.)  
> 
> --Cathy Mullican
> 
  

 Checkout the files as user Bar in another directory, copy the changed
 files into the new directory, and check them in.

HTH