Access rights to branches?

[Aidan Kehoe]

In the course of updating the carbon2 branch, I find I can commit changes in
the subdirectories, but not at top level: 

bonbon  [ cvs commit -m 'Repeating the last commit, to catch top-level files' .cvsignore CHANGES-beta COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL Makefile.in.in PROBLEMS README aclocal.m4 config.guess config.sub configure configure.ac version.sh
**** Access denied: Insufficient Karma (|XEmacs/xemacs)
cvs server: Pre-commit check failed
cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors first!
bonbon  [ 

I’m trying again with another checkout, but can anyone suggest a reason for
this? 

-- 
On the quay of the little Black Sea port, where the rescued pair came once
more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog which was
assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating. (Saki)