Re: CVS Permissions

[Pierre Asselin]

Gaurav Vaish <address@hidden> wrote:

>   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.

I'm lost.  775 is the correct permission.  Are you saying all the
directories have that permission and you still have problems ?

If subdirectories are being created with more restrictive permissions,
it means that you forgot to turn on the setgid bit in their
parent's permissions.

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