[cvsnt] cvs chacl, again

[Thomas Keller]

If somebody could help me on the issue below, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Thomas.

On Friday 15 July 2005 17:46, Thomas Keller wrote:
> I'm playing around with cvs chacl on a Linux box with CVSNT 1.5.01_1976.
> All my users connect via SSH, I have one repo where I like to give certain
> users read/write access to certain directories, others only read access.
> So far, so good. Until now I've managed CVS access simply by entering
> a user's login name into CVSROOT/writers. Now my question(s);
>
> a) Do I need to have an "writers" file at all when I use chacl?
> b) I've tried to gave user "joe" write access to a single directory and
> read-only access to the rest by doing # complete module
> $ cvs -a read -u joe -m "You have only read access to this file/folder" .
> # certain directory
> $ cvs -a read,write,control,tag -u joe foo/bar
> Both commands succeeded, but if I test my restrictions the user has still
> full read-write access to everything. Okay, he's listed in "writers", I've
> removed him from there, but now he also has no write access to his foo/bar
> directory. It seems as CVSNT completly ignores the fileattr settings.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> Thanks in advance.
> Tommy.
>
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