Re: Add/Import and directory perms...

[Rob Helmer]

Hi Anders,


I usually set the sticky bit on the cvs root, like this :

chmod g+s /var/cvs

that will make files inside that directory inhereit whatever
permissions the group has.



--
Rob Helmer
Namodn

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:13:09AM -0700, Anders Knudsen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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