Re: CVSROOT permissions

[Jon Haugsand <Jon-H.Haugsand@norges-bank.no>]

* Bill Moseley
> I just tried updating (from a remote location) a file with CVS and I 
> got:
>
>   cvs server: warning: cannot write to history file /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied
>
> And sure enough:
>
>   $ ls -l /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/history
>   -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root            0 2002-12-10 17:00 /var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/history
>
> On another machine I have all the files in CVSROOT are group "users", 
> and the history file is group rw.
>
> I guess I'm curious why my Debian installation has the history file not 
> writable by normal users (or if it should or shouldn't be).

Well, what permission is set on the CVSROOT directory in the reposotory?  I guess that
the individual file permissions is not that important as the files are
not updated, but new files are made.

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