Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-29 Thread Derek R. Price
Howard Zhou wrote: After I changed config file, I was able to checkout. However when I tried to checkin, I got the following error: could not open lock file /local/cvsroot/../,foo.txt,': Permission denied instead of the drectory specified by LockDir option - /local/cvslock I see

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-21 Thread Howard Zhou
2000 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Protect CVSROOT tree If didn't want the user to have write permissions to a particular directory, why did you give them write permissions to the directory? Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mai

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Howard Zhou wrote: If a module directory in $CVSROOT doesn't have group permission, users won't be able to checkout the module. Not true. If you set the LockDir option in $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/config to some directory everyone has write permissions to, users only need read permissions in

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-21 Thread Derek R. Price
Howard Zhou wrote: What is the checkoutlist mentioned below? http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC174 Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- I'm filling out the

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-20 Thread Derek R. Price
- Original Message - From: "Derek R. Price" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Howard Zhou" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Protect CVSROOT tree Why did you put them in the group with permissions to modify CVSROOT if you didn't want th

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-19 Thread Dale Miller
Howard Zhou wrote: Hi, CVS users, CVSROOT directory tree is protect by a group permission. However this is not good enough since everybody in the group can go there and make change directly in the CVS repository. If you take off the group permission, then you have to figure out a way to

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-19 Thread Derek R. Price
I find using standard filesystem permissions works best. Derek -- Derek Price CVS Solutions Architect ( http://CVSHome.org ) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com ) -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are! Howard

Re: Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-19 Thread Dale Miller
uot;Howard Zhou" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: Re: Protect CVSROOT tree Howard Zhou wrote: Hi, CVS users, CVSROOT directory tree is protect by a group permission. However this is not good enough since everybody

Protect CVSROOT tree

2000-12-17 Thread Howard Zhou
Hi, CVS users, CVSROOT directory tree is protect by a group permission. However this is not good enough since everybody in the group can go there and make change directly in the CVS repository. If you take off the group permission, then you have to figure out a way to make change via setuid