Hi all, after realizing that others who are authorized also have problems to commit to CVS, I will write how I solved this (thanks to Toby). CVS stores in each directory the user id of the last access, and this is in most cases 'guest'. If one gets a user id with commit rights (in my case 'thn'), then a 'cvs commit' without explicitely saying for which user (I think it's the '-d' option) will look for that stored id and use this. Since 'guest' has no commit rights, this will of course fail. Deleting the whole source tree will solve the problem, sure, but this is like we germans say: shooting blackbirds with cannons... You would need to download all sources again, and that's not necessary. The most effective way is to change all CVS stored 'guest@cvs.tigris.org' in the source tree. Just substitute all 'guest@' by e.g. 'thn@' (be sure to use your own user id!), which can surely be done in one command on Unix systems, and the problem is solved. I am using WinXX, so I did this by performing a recursive find in Win Explorer (searching for files containing 'guest@', marking all with ctrl+a, loading them into a multifile text editor like Textpad and do the substitution on all opened files. And then I had the overwhelming experience of my first commit with WinCVS... :-) Good luck, Thomas |