[KLUG Members] RCS help

[Adam Williams]

>>Am I missing something simple here? Are there any easy
>>solutions to managing these non-shell accounts, or am I really
>>asking RCS to do something it is not designed to do?
>This is an "if it were me" response, so you can do it any way you
>want to, and my doing it differently doesn't negate that :)
>If it were me, I'd use CVS instead of RCS (it's just easier, also
>more powerful and such).  I'd do my CVS checkout, file editing,
>and CVS commits as a non-root user.  And I'd have a (probably
>extremely simple) Makefile, so a "make install" as root would copy
>the files from wherever I checked them out, to wherever they were
>supposed to go, and set their ownerships and permissions and such
>properly.

Exactly, I agree with (and use) the technique Jamie describes.