RE: using different user

[Thornley, David]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard degetel [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:20 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: using different user
> 
> 
>  When I want to be log in a different user, I change the 
> preference setting
>  but when I do cvs login, cvs did as I wanted to log in whith 
> the old user
>  
CVS will, apparently, want to log in as whoever is specified in the root
value (i.e., ":pserver:address@hidden:/home/ces/repository").  If this
is specified with the -d option, it will use that value.  If not, it will
use CVS/Root if that exists, otherwise the CVSROOT environment variable.
Presumably you're in a directory checked out under username A, and you're
using username B, and so it looks at the CVS/Root file.

(We're having a somewhat similar issue.  We often, in the course of reviews,
want to use "cvs diff" in people's code.  This requires logging in again,
which is not a problem since everybody's got the same CVS password, for
simplicity.)