[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!

[Pau Aliagas]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Jonathan Walther wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:33:03AM +0200, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> >> Thanks James.  That might work in my case, but overall it doesn't seem
> >> to cover each of the 6 cases I mentioned.  For instance, if I only want
> >> one user to be able to commit, but want only a particular group of
> >> people to be able to do checkouts, how can one tell arch about the
> >> permissions scheme?
> >
> >You could create another user that belongs to the same group than the 
> >previous user, so that he has read access. Put the RO user keys there.
> 
> What if group membership did not automatically grant read access?  I'd
> rather be certain, than rely on guesswork.

>From what I can see in my my archives
-sftp access respects g+s and behaves as expected
-filesystem access does not respect g+s when creating ++revision-lock and 
 the +contents dir inside, using umask 0002. It looks like a bug.

sftp looks safe and direct filesystem access looks buggy

Pau