Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:56:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@smtp4.erols.com> Subject: Re: probably simple 'cvs' question... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906041555340.13154-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990604184030.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, John Baldwin wrote: > > This is a simple permissions problem. Chown/chmod your CVS repository to > > something appropriate. I create a 'cvs' group and run my updates with a > > 002 umask. > > I think I forgot to mention it earlier, but I can do cvs operations > (checkout, update, etc.) succesfully as myself on the server. It's > only when I do them remotely that I get the error, and yes, the > usernames are the same, so that the 'cvs server' that rsh starts up is > running as the same user that I am when I do the operations on the > server. Also, I have chown'd the entire tree to myself and tried it > and no-go. Thanks for the suggestion though. I already have a www > group that owns the repository own server that both root and myself > are in on the server. Just for kicks, I duplicated that group on my > workstation (with the same gid) and made myself a member, but no go. Try running cvs with the -R option to force read-only mode. cvs -R co foo... Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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