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Re: CVS Permissions
From: |
Gaurav Vaish |
Subject: |
Re: CVS Permissions |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:53:01 +0200 |
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
> > -----------------------------
>
>
>
>