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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited |
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Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:09:08 -0800 (PST) |
> From: "Robert Anderson" <address@hidden>
> I am working in an NFS environment where all access to an archive
> is "local."
[....]
> The problem is of course that due to a non-negotiable,
> shop-mandated umask, the ++revision-lock directory is not group
> writable, and each person who commits locks out all the others
> until they make it so. This is problematic both functionally and
> in the "why are you giving us this crap tool which chokes on the
> most basic of operations" depts.
> So I'm looking for a solution.
Why don't you use some non-local transport for that archive, then?
The general problem is that you have a local policy about access
control for individual user accounts into which your access policy for
the archive can not be mapped. Using a server for the archive allows
you set up an archive-specific access policy for the archive, though.
> I am interested enough in a solution that I could probably find
> an evening or two to spend working on it, if I thought it would
> help.
You could spend an evening just setting up a server.
Alternatively, looking (at least briefly) back at the Xouvert thread,
it seems we overlooked a sane solution at that time (blush. But then
that's why I proposed the "make a new savannah account" solution after
all - to buy time to think):
While I would be against the "copy permissions" hack and against a
"tla umask" command, I would not be against support for archive
URLs of the forms (suitably adjusted if I've violated uri syntax):
file%umask=XXX://path/to/your/archive
sftp%umask=XXX:/address@hidden/path/to/your/archive
sftp:/%umask=XXX,address@hidden/path/to/your/archive
etc.
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Robert Anderson, 2003/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Dustin Sallings, 2003/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Robert Anderson, 2003/11/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Robert Collins, 2003/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Tom Lord, 2003/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, zander, 2003/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Tom Lord, 2003/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Robin Farine, 2003/11/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited, Robert Collins, 2003/11/23