According to John P. Looney:
> Alas, CVS is demented. I had to scp the file up to CVSROOT/passwd on the
> CVS server too, as all CVSROOT contained was the passwd,v file. There is a
> "CVSROOT/checkoutlist" file, that you add filenames to, and when you
> commit them, they are checked out into the directory on the CVS server.
Putting passwd in this list is a bad thing, because it means that your
cvs password file is then available to anyone who can poke at CVSROOT.
> John
Cheers,
Waider.
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