[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT & File Permissions

[Tony Hoyle]

Hartmut Honisch wrote:
> I recommend CVSNT 2.0.51d - it was marked as stable, and it works for me -
> 2.0.58 (the current stable release) had some problems.

There isn't much wrong with 2.0.58d (nothing showstopper, anyway).  I 
don't recommend using an older release as it's harder to support.

2.0.49 is an old dev. release so I wouldn't recommend using that.

>>giving that group 'rwx' access to 'Mymodule'.
>>
>>What is weird is that permissions of directories under 'Mymodule' are
>>not changed, only files' permission are modified from 'rwx' to 'r-x'.
> 
> 
> Do you have Cygwin installed on your server?

I assume from the wording of the question that he is...

The files in the repository are always stored read only, which is 
correct.. they get modified to read/write by the server as required.

CVSNT doesn't do anything with directory permisisons as they don't map 
across operating systems in any useful way.

For the repository I recommend adding CVSNT=ntea to the environment, so 
the permissions get stored somewhere else... obviously you're using 
ntsec for the clients (or Unix clients), and that'll keep working. 
Another way is to force the user the server runs under to be the same.

OTOH it should work if all the users are in the same group.

Tony