[cvsnt] Re: Anyone else noticed that chacl -r is not recursive?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Sep 16 23:26:53 BST 2004


Jeffrey Campbell wrote:
> I've noticed one other post where this issue is mentioned but can't tell
> whether it's confirmed. If I execute cvs chacl cvsuser:rwc in the top-level
> directory of a project those acls are only applied for items in that
> directory. It doesn't recurse. The same holds true for the sub-directories.
> To effectively apply acls to a cvs project I have to descend into each of
> the project's directories and execute cvs chacl.
> 
The old acl mechanism didn't have any concept of inheritance, beyond a 
check that you need read access to all the parent directories to access 
the current directory (which is actually enough for most cases).

New new one is much better at handling this.

Tony



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