From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 16 14:15:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A4F37B407 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:15:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15BNPr-00016J-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:15:35 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5GLFZv93111 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:15:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:15:34 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: best permissions for local CVS tree? Message-ID: <20010616221534.A93020@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Since i want to be able to perform cvs operations to update my source tree, what is the best combination of directory permissions to do this, while minimizing the number of operations required as root? Do i chown both /home/ncvs and /usr/src to the user id i will use? I think if i do this, cvsup reverts them. I also don't like having too many files so relaxed on permissions. Or am i just paranoid? Jonathon -- Tech support: Try this. Arrange the parts in neat piles. Stand on your chair until you can see over your cubicle walls. Now shout "Does anybody know how to read a manual?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message