Re: debian: cvs server giving permission denied

[Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com>]

They all looked OK, then I noticed that CVSROOT had ownership/group of 
root/root.  I changed the group to cvsusers and now everything works 
ok.  Thanks for giving me the prod to the obvious.

Regards,
Brendan Simon.



Doug McNaught wrote:

> Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com> writes:
>
> > I've got a CVS server on a PowerMac running Debian GNU Linux
> > (stable).  I can checkout from the repository but I can not do
> > simple operations like status or update.  This only happens when
> > performing these operations on directories with subdirectories
> > (excluding CVS).  Is this a known problem and how do I solve it.
>
>
> Sanity check:  does the user the server runs as have write access to
> all the directories in the repository?
>
> -Doug