Re: CVS import and file permissions

[Marcus Crafter]

Hi Timur,

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:10:33AM -0500, Timur Aydin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I import a new project into the CVS repository, both the owner and
> group of all files are set to my username. This causes trouble, because when
> somebody else wants to check out this project, he gets permission denied
> errors. I guess if I manually change the group of all files to "cvs", then
> things work again. But I couldn't find any statement in the documentation
> that says you have to manually chgrp new projects to "cvs". You do that only
> after cvs init...
> 
> So, is it necessary to chgrp to "cvs" every new project that I add to the
> repository?

        It's not necessary if you set your repository up correctly. My
        repository has the following permissions:

$> ls -ld /var/cvs
drwxrwsr-x   16 root     cvs          4096 Dec 19 15:34 /var/cvs

        The g+s bit ensures that files created retain the group 'cvs'.
        ie:

$> ls -l /var/cvs
drwxrwsr-x    4 crafterm cvs          4096 Dec  4 12:57 project1
drwxrwsr-x    4 crafterm cvs          4096 Dec  1 14:43 project2
drwxrwsr-x    4 crafterm cvs          4096 Dec  3 17:51 project3

        Anyone in the cvs group should then have sufficient permissions to
        access/modify these files.

        Hope that helps.

        Cheers,

        Marcus
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