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Subject: Re: cvs commit: /home/cvs/386BSD/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/xditview Makefile 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Sep 94 21:24:01 PDT."
             <199409040424.VAA01862@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> 
From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 03 Sep 1994 21:29:25 -0700
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>Can we some how convert /home/cvs to READ ONLY cvs access??  We still
>need to be able to do cvs co, but that is all.  I think a chmod -R a-r
>on ~cvs/386BSD whould do the trick.

   CVS needs to be able to create lock files as it is checking things out. If
you change the permissions to disallow write, you won't be able to check
things out.

-DG