Re: CVS Permissions

[Gaurav Vaish]

Hi Arthur,

  I know of CVSNT on Windows for past 4yrs now. The only thing that I
didn't know of was that it is now an integral part of WinCVS. In that
case, I would safely assume that it is standard configuration. :-)

  Thanks for the mail.


Cheers,
Gaurav
http://gallery.mastergaurav.net
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:51:32 +1000, Arthur Barrett
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Gaurav,
> 
> I suppose you could view CVSNT as "3rd party" - but it's actually GPL, GNU, 
> completely open source and free.
> 
> It is the "standard cvs" bundled with WinCVS and TortoiseCVS etc, and has 
> been for a long time.
> 
> CVSNT is an active project with regular feature releases for over 6 years.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Arthur Barrett
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Gaurav Vaish [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent:   Wed 8/18/2004 4:25 PM
> To:     Arthur Barrett
> Cc:     address@hidden
> Subject:        Re: CVS Permissions
> 
> So, does that mean the permission issue is a standard problem?
> 
> I would be surprised then! There must be someway to overcome this in
> the default CVS server itself, rather than going for 3rd party
> implementation of the CVS, like CVSNT you mentioned.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gaurav
> http://iitk.mastergaurav.net
> -----------------------------
> 
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:51:29 +1000, Arthur Barrett
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Gaurav,
> >
> > CVSNT (also open source - also runs on Linux) solves this problem by using 
> > a separate lock server.
> >
> > You can download source and binaries for Linux here:
> > http://march-hare.com/cvspro
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Arthur Barrett
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   address@hidden on behalf of Gaurav Vaish
> > Sent:   Tue 8/17/2004 3:46 PM
> > To:     address@hidden
> > Cc:
> > Subject:        CVS Permissions
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I setup CVS on a Linux machine and I'm facing problem with permissions.
> >
> >  I am using pserver to connect and more often than not, I get the
> > error - "Unable to create #cvs.lock, Permission denied".
> >
> >  The reason is that a module or a subdirectory thereof will be
> > created by the permission set of the permission who created it. Though
> > the directory permissions are 775 and all the users are in the group
> > "cvs", but still the problem persists.
> >
> >  Even during checkout, I get this error. I have to logon to the
> > server and change the permissions to cvs.cvs whole of the hierarchy.
> > "chown -R" is a big pain.
> >
> >  Any help in this direction will be welcome.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gaurav
> > http://iitk.mastergaurav.net
> > -----------------------------
> 
> 
> 
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