[cvsnt] Re: Problem with the locks

[Glen Starrett]

Ahmad Saeed wrote:
> Hallo
> 
> I am new to cvsnt. I have a little problem. I am sure you people can
> solve it out for me.
> On the server side I have a repository 'nam'
> 
> The user 'xyz' ahs only read access for this directory.
> 
> When the user xyz use the checkout command to get the workign
> directory the following error is coming
> 
> cvs checkout nam
> cvs checkout: Updating nam
> cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for
> `/usr/local/cvsroot/nam' (/usr/local/cvsroot/nam/#cvs.lock):
> Permission denied

Change your CVSNT server to use lockserver instead of file-based locks. 
  Lockserver doesn't require write rights to the repository.

http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/LockServer

Regards,

-- 
Glen Starrett