Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:24:25 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: david bryce <davidbryce@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS Import Permissions Message-ID: <20060130102425.GA1499@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <1138596771.16135.253057403@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1138596771.16135.253057403@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On 2006-01-30 15:52, david bryce <davidbryce@fastmail.fm> 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?
That depends on what your `umask' currently is.
> Do I have to use chmod to grant write access to the group every time I
> do an import?
No. The correct way to fix this is to set CVSUMASK in your shell
environment, and then import the files :)
Of course, now that the import is done, you can still use a bit of
``repository hackery'' to set the g+w bit for the checked in sources.
> Or is my CVS not configured correctly?
Your cvs is fine. The default umask is 022, which strips off g+w
permissions from all newly created files; including the ones CVS creates
in the repository.
> 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.
The RCS files inside `/usr/local/cvs/test_proj' have no group-write
permission. You can fix this by something like this:
$ cd $CVSROOT
$ find . -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+w
This is the sort of ``repository hackery'' I mentioned above.
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