From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 1 12:45:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03735 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:45:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03718 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:45:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12494; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199802012003.MAA12494@austin.polstra.com> To: julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: cvSup and permissions In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 12:03:41 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" In article , Julian Elischer wrote: > What are the correct permissions for the CVS tree? > Unless I have everything rw_rw_??? with a group of 'eng' (engineering) > people in the 'eng' group cannot use it. The directories at least have to be group writable. It's actually OK if the RCS files in them are read-only. They never get modified. They're always copied with changes into a new file. > however cvsup keeps changing the permissions of everything so I've had to > add a 'chmod -R g+rw /cvs; chgrp -R cvs /cvs' to teh script that runs > cvsup each day. That is almost certainly because your umask is 022 when you run cvsup. Make sure it's 002, and you shouldn't have this problem. The documentation isn't good in this area. > Is access to CVS goverened entirely by file permissions? Yes. > We are using cvs directly on that machine, pserver mode within the > company and rsh server elsewhere. I don't want to make cvs SUID.. That's for sure! -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth