Setting up read-write access for local CVS

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

I have installed cvs on my machine and want to use it so that I as a
user can check in and out files. 

I put the repository at /var/cvs and as root I ran cvs init.

When I as a user ran:
cvs import -m "Created directory structure" Ada95/Touch obliord start

I got:

cvs import: Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file
cvs [import aborted]: /var/cvs/CVSROOT/history: Ikke tilgang

(Ikke tilgang = No access)

This was of course not surprisingly. My question is how do one setup cvs
so that one gets read write access?

Should one:

1. Create a cvs group and give this group ownership with r/w to the
   repository and add users to this group?
2. Use the setuid bit on cvs?
3. Other solution (which?)

Thanks in advance.

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Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/>
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