Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

[Derek R. Price]

Howard Zhou wrote:

> After I changed config file, I was able to checkout. However when I tried to
> checkin, I got the following error:
> could not open lock file /local/cvsroot/../,foo.txt,': Permission denied
>  instead of the drectory specified by LockDir option - /local/cvslock
>
> I see directories created in LockDir directory but I don't see any ,foo.txt
> lock created.
>
> Do you know why?

Please keep questions of this nature on the info-cvs list.  You are much more
likely to receive a prompt and accurate response than by writing me directly.

That said, sometimes this can happen because, by default, the first time CVS
creates any directory in LockDir it gets created with default permissions for
the current user.  If the user's default group doesn't give the next user to
come along write permissions to the dir then they won't be able to create a
lock.

The solution to this is to make sure that all users have write permissions in
LockDir.  This can be accomplished by setting the setgid bit on the original
LockDir.  If you don't know what this means, 'man chmod'.

Derek

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