RE: user privileges for files / dirs / modules

[Christopher.Fouts]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim.Hyslop [mailto:address@hidden 
>Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:37 AM
>To: Fouts Christopher (IFNA MP DC); address@hidden
>Subject: RE: user privileges for files / dirs / modules
>
>
>address@hidden wrote:
>> I'm hoping this is as simple as this. Though for some reason, my 
>> $CVSROOT/CVSROOT files get reset whenever I submit something 
>in there, 
>> then I have to manually chmod. I have a taglogs and a logtags file 
>> that change to r--r--r--. The logtags file is just a script 
>that logs 
>> tags into the taglogs file. Both are in the checkoutlist 
>file, also in 
>> ../CVSROOT.
>Hmmm... I seem to recall a discussion on this topic a few 
>months back. If memory serves, the permissions of the 
>checked-out file will always be set to the permissions that 
>the original file had when it was first checked in. I could be 
>wrong, though. And if I'm right, I don't remember what the fix 
>was. Sorry to be so vague about this.
>
>-- 
>Jim Hyslop
>Senior Software Designer
>Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com ) 
>Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )
>

Yes I started the discussion back then too, and did not get
(or I couldn't filter out) a straight answer. So once checked-in
with the "wrong" perms, how does one correct it?

-chris