Re: setting up a read only group along with the normal dev. group

[Larry Jones]

Jones, Lee writes:
> 
> The manual says that all directories must have write permissions for whoever
> needs to checkout from the repository so that CVS can create the temporary
> lock files.

That's true *if the lock files are in the repository* (which they are by
default).  If you use LockDir in your CVSROOT/config file to put the
lock files somewhere else, then you can make directories read-only for
users that are allowed to check them out but not commit changes.

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC177

-Larry Jones

Just when I thought this junk was beginning to make sense. -- Calvin