Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:43:16 -0400 From: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS Import Permissions Message-ID: <43DDA774.80507@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <1138596771.16135.253057403@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1138596771.16135.253057403@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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david bryce wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having some confusion regarding the way CVS works with permissions > under unix when importing a new project. Currently, when I import a > project, I get this sort of permissions on the project directory: > > drwxr-x--- 2 jim cvs 512 Jan 27 12:31 test_proj > > Notice that the group (cvs) is not granted write access. Is this the way > it's supposed to work? Do I have to use chmod to grant write access to > the group every time I do an import? Or is my CVS not configured > correctly? > > If I don't grant write access to the group on that directory, every > check in fails with a "could not open lock file > `/usr/local/cvs/test_proj/,test.txt,': Permission denied". I tried > setting the LockDir in the config file to a world-writable directory, > but this doesn't seem to solve the problem when trying to check-in. > Thank you! > > Regards, > > DB > Hi, I highly recommend the following book. It is available for viewing online or as a downloadble PDF http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ Best Regards, --Duane Whitty ----------------------- duane@greenmeadow.ca
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