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=== admin&mdash;Administration ===
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* Requires: repository, working directory.

* Changes: repository.

* Synonym: rcs

This is the <small>CVS</small> interface to assorted
administrative facilities.  Some of them have
questionable usefulness for <small>CVS</small> but exist for
historical purposes.  Some of the questionable options
are likely to disappear in the future.  This command
''does'' work recursively, so extreme care should be
used.

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On unix, if there is a group named <code>cvsadmin</code>,
only members of that group can run <code>cvs admin</code>
commands, except for those specified using the
<code>UserAdminOptions</code> configuration option in the
&lsquo;<tt>CVSROOT/config</tt>&rsquo; file.  Options specified using
<code>UserAdminOptions</code> can be run by any user.  See
[[cvs: The CVSROOT%47config configuration file#The CVSROOT/config configuration file|config]] for more on <code>UserAdminOptions</code>.

The <code>cvsadmin</code> group should exist on the server,
or any system running the non-client/server <small>CVS</small>.
To disallow <code>cvs admin</code> for all users, create a
group with no users in it.  On NT, the <code>cvsadmin</code>
feature does not exist and all users
can run <code>cvs admin</code>.

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