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Re: file permissions when adding directories via pserver
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: file permissions when adding directories via pserver |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:32:16 -0500 (EST) |
Matt Munz writes:
>
> When a user logs in to cvs via pserver and adds a directory, what
> determines the file permissions of that
> directory? What determines the ownership, read, and write settings,
> etc.?
The operating system. On BSD Unix (where CVS grew up), the directory
would inherit the ownership and permissions of its parent directory. On
AT&T Unix, it would be owned by the user that created it and have
his/her default permissions. On Linux (and other hybrid systems), you
get AT&T behavior by default, but can get BSD behavior by setting the
sgid bit on the parent directory.
-Larry Jones
Everybody's a slave to routine. -- Calvin