Re: folder level access in cvs

[Todd Denniston]

Sandhya wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Joining new to the team of mails...
> Have started to be the admin of cvs for for the past 1 month. Just wanted to 
> know how to give read-
> write access on a folder level in cvs.
> I have tried readers and writers. but that works only for repository level 
> and not for modules or
> directory level. If anyone can help me out how this can be achieved, it wud 
> be of great help to me.

Assumption 1: your repository is on a *nix system.
Assumption 2: you are not using pserver with only one REAL user account.

create unix groups (/etc/group) of users and set group write capability of
directories to the correct group. Also make sure the directories are not world
(other) writeable.

see:
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_2.html#SEC13

and as you are a new admin make sure you read at least
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_10.html#SEC83
and probably best to just start at the beginning and read most of
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs.html
I like to have a local copy for fast access.
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/
http://ftp.cvshome.org/release/stable/cvs-1.11.14/cederqvist-1.11.14.html.tar.bz2

also search: http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs
I believe some people may have been able to use ACLs in some types of file
systems and others I believe have mentioned getting finer grained control
using commitinfo scripts.

Have you found your big stick yet? Good luck.
-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) 
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter