Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multi-committer functionality revisited

[Robert Anderson]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:02, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> 
> On Nov 17, 2003, at 13:36, Robert Anderson wrote:
> 
> > So I'm looking for a solution.  In the "not acceptable" category
> > are additional "committer accounts" (you'll just have to accept
> > that this is not possible - I don't have root access and the
> > people who do would never create such an account).
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> 
>       I have all of my non-transient archives on a WebDAV server, which 
> sidesteps the problem some.
> 
>       Otherwise, something like this?:
> 
>       alias tla /usr/local/bin/tla-with-umask

Hmm.  That should work.  Thanks.

However, it seems ugly enough that a better solution should be devised
longer term.

Is there any reason not to make ++revision-lock dirs group writeable by
default, and have the administrator use setgid bits to control effective
group access?

Bob