Re: permissions on modules

[Olav Lindkjølen]

> 1.  Say you have a repository with two modules (let's say red and blue for
> the names).  I know if you put a user account in the readers file in
> CVSROOT, it will give that person only read access to the whole repository.
> Is there a  way to give someone read-only to red but read/write to blue?  Is
> it a bad idea to start using actual Unix permissions for things like this or
> does CVS allow you to get granular?


Have a look at the message thread from yesterday and the day before 
called "Repository access question". I had kind of the same problem you 
had and got a pretty detailed answer.

> 2.  I assume you can create more than one repository on a machine, but my
> CVS repository is  in /usr/local/cvs now.  Where would a second one go?  Can
> you specify any directory for where the repository can sit.


Yes you can. Read the Cederquist manual section about "Multiple 
repositories" at http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC9

Olav!