Re: Permission denied when commiting via ssh

[Denis Kot]

check permissions for projects/project-x/ and not only the parent directory

2007/11/30, Andre-John Mas <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a few problems commiting to my company's CVS repository
> and even the guys in charge of the repository aren't sure why.
>
> I first tried commiting to the CVS, from my PC with a project I
> checked out with Eclipse, but I get given the error:
>
> ***
> cvs ci -m "added reference to wiki" -l "/project-x/readme.txt"
>     cvs commit: permission denied for projects/project-x/readme.txt
> ok (took 0:00.265)
> Error: The following warnings were reported while performing the "cvs
> commit" command.
>    Error: bpm: cvs commit: permission denied for projects/project-x/
> readme.txt
> ***
>
> I even tried with TortoiseCVS but to no avail.
>
> If I log on to the server where the CVS repository is located and do a
> local check out then everything works, and I can even check-in. But if
> I try this with an ssh connection I can't commit. On the host machine
> (Linux), I check out the project in a new directory as follows:
>
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvs co -P projects/project-x
>
> I then attempt to do a commit of a change to a file in the project
> with:
>
> cvs commit
>
> I then get asked for a password and then vi fires up and I add a
> comment. When I save and exit vi I get given the error:
>
> cvs commit: permission denied for projects/project-x/readme.txt
>
> I am a member of the group cvs and the permissions and ownership of
> the parent directory in the repository are:
>
> drwxrwsr-x    cvs      cvs
>
> Any ideas what else I could checking?
>
> Andre
>


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