On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:37 +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Corcerning  /usr/share/doc/cvsd/FAQ.gz
> 
>  4. cvs login works but cvs checkout or other commands fail with
>     "setgid failed: Operation not permitted"
>     ...
> 
> There is also one thing that may cause this. In NFS networked system
> all UID and GID values must be kept same, so the admin sometimes
> need to hand adjust the cvsd(uid,gid) values by hand in
> 
>   /etc/passwd
>   /etc/group
> 
> Now, the catch is that the admin amy forgot to update
> 
>   $CVSDROOT/etc/passwd
> 
> file as well. All 3 must be kept in sych.
> 
> Especially if cvsd if removed and reinstalled, the uid/gid values
> change, because system allocates first free value during the new
> installation. 
> 
> If possible explain this in the FAQ. It saves lot of headache.

I have added some text to
  http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/cvsd/faq.html#setgid
that will be included in the next release.

Do you think this text is sufficient or do you have a suggestion for a
different text?

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