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Re: permissions prooblems with CVS repository
From: |
Noel Yap |
Subject: |
Re: permissions prooblems with CVS repository |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:32:03 -0700 (PDT) |
--- "Johnson, Susan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> We have a single CVS repository and multiple
> projects using that
> repository.
>
> There have been on-going problems with new users and
> CVS. Basically
> CVS creates the directories and files of the user
> who adds them with the
> default group of the user.
>
> This creates problems when someone who is in another
> group tries to check
> out a repository.
>
> Two proposals have come forth so far:
>
> 1. To have 1 group, cvsuser and anyone who intends
> to use cvs would be part
> of that group and this would be their default
> group. If they need to
> temporarily be in another group, they can use the
> newgrp command.
>
> 2. Have a seperate group for each repository. In
> other words there would
> be a pegs group, a hds group, a server group, a
> rave, mars, ...
> Then, when you want to work on that repository
> (check out, add, com,...)
> you would have to newgrp to that group
>
> I want to maintain a single repository, with
> multiple users in different
> groups using it. What is the best way to achieve
> this? We are working in
> a Solaris 2.8 UNIX environment.
Have you tried setting the SGID bit on the repo
directories? I believe this is discussed in the FAQ.
HTH,
Noel
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