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cvs chown does work I have installed CVSNT 2.0.41 on Win2K (SP4) and WinCVS 1.3.17.2 Beta 17 (Build 2) on Win2KP I am using pserver protocol SystemAuth=no Impersonation disabled. On the CVSNT server machine I have two foilders D:\CVSRepositories & D:\CVSTemp the repository is D:\CVSRepositories\Projects Everyone & System, have full control over both these folders. D:\CVSRepositories\Projects\CVSROOT has passwd, admin & group files passwd has an entry for user 'Admin' like Admin:<password> (yes, I don't want to use alias) other users..... The admin file has one line for user 'Admin' So from the client machine I login as user Admin Almost every thing is working fine ... BUT When I try to use cvs chown <A User> on a checked out module it gives me the following error... cvs server: Changing owner of . to <A User> cvs server: cannot open D:/CVSRepositories/Projects/<Module>/./.owner for writing: Permission denied I tried the same on the CVSNT server machine, logged in as Administrator, checked out the Module using local protocol, and executed cvs chown on the same. but got the following error message... cvs chown: 'Administrator' does not own . Then, I tried with the pserer protocol also (checked out the module as user Admin) but got the same message as in if I try it from some client machine. I can manually edit the .owner file, but not through the cvs chown command. I do not know if such a bug exists or I am making any mistakes. ----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x----------x---------- Can anybody also tell me abt what exactly is the security risk we would face while using pserver protocol ? Does sserver, in simple words, mean pserver but the one which is secure ? And if one wants to use SSH but does not want to use any domain users, only passwd, i.e., CVS, users, then how can one go abt it ? or this kind of settup is not possible. Regards, Rajendra Divecha _________________________________________________________________ Get head-hunted by 10,000 recruiters. http://go.msnserver.com/IN/46246.asp Post your CV on naukri.com today.