Re: Controlling which group id is granted access to new files

[Mark E. Hamilton]

Ed J wrote:
> Is there a way to specify which group id is to be granted access to newly
> created files in CVS?
>
> We use CVS access via SSH (actually :ext:) with unique usernames for each
> CVS user to interact with the repository.  We assign a unique group id to
> each CVS module, then selectively grant group membership to individual
> users.  Even though I've run chgrp on an entire CVS module to set its group,
> when a user creates new content in that module, CVS assigns group access to
> "users", giving anyone with shell access visibility to the file.  How do I
> get CVS to use another group id?


You need to set the group 's' bit on all the sub-directories in the 
module within the repository. The following is how I usually do it 
(assuming a Unix-like system.)

chgrp -R <group_for_module> <module>
find <module> -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

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Mark E. Hamilton
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