How do you run the cvs binary from your script? If this is a simple CGI that calls os.popen() or os.system() then the cvs binary is most likely running as the same user as the Apache HTTP server (usually someone like "nobody", "apache", or "www"). http://cgiwrap.unixtools.org/ is one solution. Also consider suEXEC which is part of the Apache distribution; although, it is not installed by default. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html . There are reasons why this is dangerous and those reasons are discussed in the suEXEC documentation. You can also see if the system administrator can allow the web server user or group to run cvs. Again, this exposes your server and so it's dangerous, but allowing cvs commit from a CGI is dangerous, so I assume you know what you are doing. All of these solutions will require the involvement of your UNIX system administrator.
You may also want to look at the ViewCVS project (http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/ ) since that is written in Python and implements a CGI-to-cvs interface. This may give you some implementation hints. Yours, Noah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
