From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 05:43:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D55A16A420 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:43:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C85BD43D46 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:43:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip04.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.20]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0ITW00AYL58J51B1@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:43:31 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.101]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip04.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:43:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:43:16 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <1138596771.16135.253057403@webmail.messagingengine.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <43DDA774.80507@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <1138596771.16135.253057403@webmail.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Subject: Re: CVS Import Permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:43:17 -0000 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