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Controls various global (non-project-specific) repository parameters.
The syntax of each line is

     ParameterName=yes|no

except for the LockDir parameter, which takes an absolute pathname as
argument.

The following parameters are supported:

   * RCSBIN (default: `=no') - (Obsolete) This option is silently
     accepted for backwards compatibility, but no longer has any effect.

   * SystemAuth (default: `=no') - If `yes', CVS pserver authentication
     tries the system user database - usually `/etc/passwd' - if a
     username is not found in `CVSROOT/passwd'.  If `no', the user must
     exist in `CVSROOT/passwd' to gain access via the `:pserver:'
     method.

   * PreservePermissions (default: `=no') - If `yes', CVS tries to
     preserve permissions and other special file system information
     (such as device numbers and symbolic link targets) for files.  You
     probably don't want to do this, as it does not necessarily behave
     as expected. (See the node `Special Files' in the Cederqvist
     manual for details.)

   * TopLevelAdmin (default: `=no') - If `yes', checkouts create a
     `CVS/' subdirectory next to each working copy tree (in the parent
     directory of the working copy).  This can be useful if you will be
     checking out many working copies from the same repository; on the
     other hand, setting it here affects everyone who uses this
     repository.

   * LockDir (unset by default) - The argument after the equal sign is a
     path to a directory in which CVS can create lockfiles.  If not set,
     lockfiles are created in the repository, in locations
     corresponding to each project's RCS files.  This means that users
     of those projects must have file-system-level write access to
     those repository directories.