Re: CVS setup help

[Rohit Peyyeti]

Hello Larry:

Thanks for pointing this out. As of now, I did not add
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd file to the checkoutlist
file. I removed the old passwd file from the repository
and created new passwd file under $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/
and tightened up direcoty permissions for
$CVSROOT/CVSROOT.

Now, I am able to successfully login into CVS with
CVS user called 'readroh'. But when I checkout files
from the repository, I still get read+write file
permissions and not as supposed to be read-only
mode.

Also, is 'readers' file created the same way as passwd
file? In either case it does not work. The readers file
contains just one line: readroh. And for sure I gave
new line at the end.

Regards,
Rohit Peyyeti


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Jones" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: CVS setup help


> Rohit Peyyeti writes:
> >
> > And I am not editing $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd
> > file directly in the repository directory. I first checkout the
> > file and then edit it before committing.
>
> That's almost certainly your problem -- unless you've added passwd to
> the checkoutlist file, you don't actually have a $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd
> file, you only have the corresponding RCS file
> ($CVSROOT/CVSROOT/passwd,v).  Like the manual says, the passwd file is
> usually edited in place because there are serious security implications
> if you put it in CVS.  Unless you understand what they are, I strongly
> advise that you *not* use CVS to manage the passwd file.  Perhaps you
> should re-read the relevant section of the manual:
> <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC29>.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
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