Add/Import and directory perms...

[Anders Knudsen]

I was unable to find an answer to my following question. I do have a work 
around, however, I was hoping that someone else had insight on this. Please 
help.  :-)

I'm running cvs pserver on RH7.0... read xinted
My cvspserver config for xinetd looks like this:

service cvspserver
{
  socket_type         = stream
  protocol            = tcp
  wait                = no
  user                = root
  passenv             =
  group               = cvsroot
  only_from           = 192.168.200.0
  log_type            = FILE /var/log/xinetdlog
  server              = /usr/bin/cvs
  server_args         = -f --allow-root=/home/cvsroot/firmware pserver
  log_on_success     += USERID DURATION
  log_on_failure     += HOST USERID
  disable             = no
}

Note above that "group = cvsroot". All users with cvs access are members of 
the group cvsroot.
Now...when a user adds a directory to an existing module, or imports a 
module into the repository, the directories created get owner and group 
privs for that user, and not cvsroot (as I had expected.) This causes 
problems, since the umask is such that new directories are created with 
775. Any user other than the one who added the directory cannot checkout 
(or do any other cvs command) to that directory in the module. I then have 
to manually log on as root and do a "chmod cvsroot.cvsroot" on the newly 
added directory.

Why did cvs not change the group to "cvsroot"?

I am using the workaround by manually doing a chmod g+s on newly imported 
modules, however, there's got to be a better way. Or is this something CVS 
does not handle? I was under the impression that since CVS runs as suid, 
and group=cvsroot (from xinetd) that any newly created directories (or 
files for that matter) would have a group id of cvsroot.

Any insight and/or help on this is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
-Anders.