Re: group membership different for 1.12.10?

[Darlene D Choontanom]

-Darlene D Choontanom wrote:
-> We just recently upgraded to CVS 1.12.9, and noticed that the group
-> membership on our various CVS repositories are not working like they
-> used to.  In previous versions, a user just had to be a member
of the
-> Unix group in order to be able to modify a repository.  Now,
however,
-> they need to change their effective gid via the "newgrp"
command in
-> order to access it. 
-
-
-I wouldn't have expected this to happen and have seen no evidence of it
-here.  Perhaps 1.12.x changed some file or directory access in such
a
-way as to interact with your UNIX file system in a new way?  If you
-could give us more specific information about how to reproduce this and
-perhaps exactly which operations are failing?  Specific error messages
-would be helpful, as would specific OS and client versions.

Sorry about that; the actual version of CVS we're
using is 1.12.12, not *.10 (or *.9 ...); the CVS repository is hosted on
Sun fileservers; the clients are either running Solaris 8 or 9 or some
variant of Windows running winCVS.  A transcript from a Solaris session
is below.

--- begin---
mopsella% cvs -d /home/p2homer/cvsroot
checkout homer
cvs [checkout aborted]: /home/p2homer/cvsroot/CVSROOT:
Permission denied
mopsella% ls -l /home/p2homer/cvsroot/CVSROOT
total 12458
drwxrws---   2 p2homer  p2
          512 Aug 14  2002 Emptydir/
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
           42 Jul 30  2004 avail
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          663 Feb 18  2004 avail,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          499 Jul 30  2004 checkoutlist
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
          817 Feb 12  2004 checkoutlist,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          805 Jul 30  2004 commitinfo
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
         1123 Feb 12  2004 commitinfo,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          527 Jul 30  2004 config
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
          728 Aug 14  2002 config,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
           81 Jul 30  2004 cvsignore
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          400 Apr  3  2003 cvsignore,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
         1119 Jul 30  2004 cvswrappers
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
         1578 Aug 16  2002 cvswrappers,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
         1025 Jul 30  2004 editinfo
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
         1226 Aug 14  2002 editinfo,v
-rwxrw----   1 p2homer  p2
      6319987 Aug 30 07:15 history*
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
         1141 Jul 30  2004 loginfo
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
         1342 Aug 14  2002 loginfo,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
         1217 Jul 30  2004 modules
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
         2533 Apr  3  2003 modules,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          564 Jul 30  2004 notify
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
          765 Aug 14  2002 notify,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          649 Jul 30  2004 rcsinfo
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
          850 Aug 14  2002 rcsinfo,v
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
          879 Jul 30  2004 taginfo
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
         1080 Aug 14  2002 taginfo,v
-rw-rw----   1 p2homer  p2
          641 Aug 30 07:23 val-tags
-rwxr--r--   1 p2homer  p2
         3094 Jul 19  2004 val-tags.db*
-r--r--r--   1 p2homer  p2
         1026 Jul 30  2004 verifymsg
-r--rw----   1 p2homer  p2
         1227 Aug 14  2002 verifymsg,v
mopsella% groups
31751 p4_lsf apl5 p2 p4 p2_lsf
mopsella% cvs -v

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Thanks--
Darlene

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