Re: RCS: Preserving group ownership

[woger151]

Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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> > Mark D. Baushke wrote:
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> > > > I want to be able to use RCS with files such that when I check out the
> > > > file, the group ownership is preserved.
> > > >
> > > > That is, I want owner = root, group owner = www.  But whenever I co,
> > > > group owner reverts to root.  That's even if I chgrp www on the *,v
> > > > file.
> > >
> > > In many filesystems, the default group of a new file may be defaulted to
> > > the current directory group by setting the set-gid bit on the directory.
> > >
> > > You do not specify which operating system or filesystem you are using
> > > for your repository, so further advice is not really possible.
> >
> > Linux (SuSE 10.1), ext3.
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> Yes, the set-gid should do what you wish.
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>      chown -R root:www /path/to/cvs/root/directory
>      find /path/to/cvs/root/directory -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
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> This means that new temporary ,foo, files created in those directories
> will be of group www and when they are renamed to foo,v the group will
> be as you expect.
>
>       -- Mark

Thanks for your help; that solution worked.

Cheers.

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