Re: Checkout problem with 1.11.17

[Larry Jones]

Arnaud writes:
> 
> The CVSROOT of our project is located in the home directory of
> a friend (/udd/xxxx/cvs). We are in the same group and the permissions
> are /udd/xxxx : drwx--x---, /udd/xxxx/cvs : drwxr-x---.
> Everything works perfectly with the version 1.11 of GNU cvs.

No it doesn't, you just haven't tried anything that doesn't work yet.

> When I try to checkout our project with version 1.11.17, I get the
> following error:
> cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot getwd in /udd/xxxx/cvs: Permission denied

You need group read permission on /udd/xxxx in addition to execute
permission.

-Larry Jones

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