Re: CVS LockDir Help

[Donald Sharp]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:28:24PM +0600, William Asquith wrote:
> Sorry to kept this up.  The "" removal might
> have made the difference.  It is now
> apparently working for 'junkcvs', but checkout is not working for
> 'fortworth'.  Here is CVSROOT (should permissions be stricter for
> users?):
> 
> address@hidden txdotcvs]$ ls -l
> total 16
> drwxrwxr-x    3 asquith  cvsadmin     4096 May 31 15:05 CVSROOT
> drwxr-xr-x    3 asquith  txdotcvs     4096 May 31 15:06 cvslocks

The group txdotcvs doesn't have write permission in the cvslocks directory.

donald
> drwxrwxr-x    2 asquith  txdotcvs     4096 May 31 13:48 fortworth
> drwxrwxrwx    2 asquith  txdotcvs     4096 May 31 13:40 junkcvs
> 
> I can checkout 'junkcvs' and 'fortworth' as 'asquith' who is member
> of txdotcvs and cvsadmin.  I can not checkout as 'wasquith' who is a
> member of txdotcvs only.
> 
> address@hidden fortworth]$ cvs co fortworth
> cvs checkout: Updating fortworth
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory in repository
> `/home/dotcvs/fortworth': Permission denied
> cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/home/dotcvs/fortworth'cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed -
> giving up
> 
> address@hidden asquith]$ cvs co fortworth
> cvs checkout: Updating fortworth
> 
> QUESTION:
> Is the group txdotcvs not being picked up by user wasquith?  Notice
> that world has write permission on junkcvs.
> 
> 
> 
> William H. Asquith
> Hydrologist
> USGS, Austin, TX
>