[cvsnt] Error: The 'cvs edit' command requires write access to the repository

[Rick Martin]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:19:50 -0800, Rick Martin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My users are receiving a permissions error when trying to do a cvs edit 
> operation. Actually it doesn't appear to be the edit command only. I'm 
> getting reports of error on commit, too.
> This was working earlier last week so I think it must be some kind of 
> rights issue that I changed. That will teach me <g>.

As it turns out it was only some of the users.
They had a trailing space in the CVSROOT\writers file.
Removing the spaces fixed the problem.

Rick