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Re: cvs init/dir & file owner problems
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: cvs init/dir & file owner problems |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:44:54 -0500 (EST) |
Ezequiel Valenzuela writes:
>
> When I tried to add a directory as a user, the direcory is created
> username:users (a default group for other purposes). This, of course, is
> not what I expected. The documentation says something about directory
> permissions to be the same as its parent's when created. This is not
> what is happening now.
That's the way BSD Unix works, but AT&T Unix (which is the model on
which Linux is based) works differently. If you set the SGID bit on the
repository directories (chmod g+s), then it will behave as expected.
-Larry Jones
I always have to help Dad establish the proper context. -- Calvin