CVS Permission issues on creating new modules

xaos5 · 05-23-2008, 12:51 PM

I'm currently managing a small CVS server on my Linux server 2.6.21-2-486 (Debian Lenny) running Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13. I have an issue where when new files and modules are created permissions are not being set correctly.

I'd like everything in my CVSROOT to chown to AdminAccount:cvs but currently its UserThatCreated:AnotherGroupDependingOnUser

Thanks in advance,
David

xaos5 · 05-29-2008, 01:42 PM

bump ^^^^^^^^^^

gilead · 05-29-2008, 08:05 PM

This sounds more like a file system problem than a CVS problem. If you set the group sticky bit on a directory, the files and directories that are created inside it will inherit its group ownership instead of being assigned the user's primary group. For example:

Code:

$ ls -ld /usr/local/cvsrepos/webs
drwxrwsr-x 8 cvs cvs_webs 4096 2006-06-04 07:59 /usr/local/cvsrepos/webs
$ ls -l /usr/local/cvsrepos/webs
total 40
-r-xr-xr-- 1 cvs   cvs_webs 2287 2002-03-17 06:40 copyweb.bat,v
drwxrwsr-x 6 cvs   cvs_webs 4096 2006-12-07 05:20 inflections
drwxrwsr-x 2 steve cvs_webs 4096 2006-02-12 05:32 monthly
drwxrwsr-x 2 steve cvs_webs 4096 2006-02-12 05:34 pricing
-r--r--r-- 1 steve cvs_webs 1705 2005-07-05 05:46 runsheet.txt,v
drwxrwsr-x 2 steve cvs_webs 4096 2007-10-24 08:30 steve
-r-xr-xr-- 1 cvs   cvs_webs 4938 2002-06-02 05:10 webclean.pl,v

If it's any use, there's some info on this at http://rute.2038bug.com/node17.html.gz