Re: As if there wasn't enough discussion about access control...

[Larry Jones]

Jimmy Rimmer writes:
> 
> Currently, access is through group permissions; if you're a member of the
> 'cvs' group on the Linux box, you have full access the repository.  But if
> you're not...
> 
> I'd like to be able to establish some sort of "checkout-only" access for the
> folks in marketing.  Is there a way to create such a thing using Unix file
> permissions?  Or do I need to dig into the administrative files?

You can do it with file permissions -- simply give "other" read access
to the files and read/execute access to the directories.  You'll also
need to set LockDir in your CVSROOT/config file to some world-writable
directory for the lock files.

-Larry Jones

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