From experience - its happy enough if you have 'su'ed from a user
	to root before making the commit. My guess is that it really wants
	a non-root username for the logs, and if you login directly as
	root it has no way of getting one.

	Try 'su'ing from a a user first...

		David/absolute

             -=-  Sue me, screw me, walk right through me  -=-

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Sean Witham wrote:

> 
> I'm using the CVS package on NetBSD 1.3.1 (i386 port). After a
> sucessfull installation I read the manuals, checkedout the
> CVSROOT/modules file added some modules and then tried to commit the
> fille which resulted as follows:
> 
> 	newbuild# cvs commit CVSROOT/modules
> 	cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'
> 	newbuild#
> 
> I've checked the manual but can't find any notes about root not being
> allowed to use CVS. Does anyone know why this has happened or what I
> have done wrong and maybe what I can do to continue.
> 
> --Sean
> 
>