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Re: CVS Owners / Permissions
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: CVS Owners / Permissions |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:25:55 -0400 (EDT) |
Pat Verner writes:
>
> I have been using CVS 1.10 for some time, over a number of projects using
> both CVS and WinCVS clients.
> Authentication is using pserver; the server is running on a Linux box
> using inetd, which is configured to start the server as user "rcs" in group
> "cvs". This combination exists partly for historical reasons, and partly
> for security reasons - I do not want the repository owned by root.
>
> The present server is however running out of steam, and I am in the process
> of setting up a new server, this time using CVS-1.11.1p1. If I try to
> start the server in the same way as on the old server, as user rcs/cvs, the
> any cvs command gives me the error "setgid failed: Operation not permitted"
You have to use a CVSROOT/passwd file to map every CVS user to "rcs".
See: <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC30>.
-Larry Jones
Wheeee. -- Calvin