Re: Problem with CVS checkout/update

[Mark D. Baushke]

Marooned <marooned@graffiti.net> writes:

> Wonder if this is the right group.
> 
> My problem is that we have a CVS repository on a linux machine and 
> we use the ssh mode of authentication to access the repository.
> while setting up the respository we 
> 
> 1. created a user groups cvs, which had all the members who needed to
> access.
> 2. did : chgrp -R cvs <CVSROOT>
> 3. chmod ug+rwx . <CVSROOT>CVSROOT (as mentioned in the manual.)
> 4. all the umasks are set to 000.

Hmmm... That is kind of a dangerous umask you have there...
 
> However, still whenever some one adds a directory to the repository,
> subsequent
> checkouts/updates by other members result in following error :
> 
> failed to create lock directory for `/opt/CP_IDS_CVSROOT/Docs/temp'
> (/opt/CP_IDS_CVSROOT/Docs/temp/#cvs.lock): Permission denied

Where $CVSROOT /opt/CP_IDS_CVSROOT and a user just created a new temp
directory under the Docs module? Is the group for temp the same as the
default group for the user that created it?

> What is the reason for this happening?

You may need to 

    find $CVSROOT -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+s

in order that newly created directories added to the cvs repository are
in group cvs.

        -- Mark