RE: Preventing Read Access to a File

[Wiest, Damian]

Jake,

Why not just use the UNIX group permissions system?  One downside is that,
depending on your policy, users may have to remember to issue the newgrp(1)
command.

-Damian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Colman [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:26 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Preventing Read Access to a File
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone suggest a method for restricting read access by 
> specified individuals to specific modules?  Using CVS' 
> commitlog script I can restrict users from committing to 
> branches and/or modules.  But how can I prevent them from 
> even seeing it?
> 
> I don't think CVS, itself, can solve this for me.  Am I correct?
> 
> I've looked at the cvsacl project (a patch to CVS source code 
> to support file-based ACLs) but it appears to be dormant.  
> Also, the patch is three point releases behind the current 
> version.  Does anyone know anything about this project?  Does 
> anyone know why this patch never made it into the mainline code?
> 
> Are any of the other CVS-compatible projects (e.g., CVSNT) an 
> option?  I need to keep the repository on Solaris so using 
> NTFS ACLs is not a solution.
> 
> Subversion does not directly support ACLs but might be able 
> to help me via WebDav and Apache.
> 
> Has anyone else faced this problem and found a way to solve 
> it?  We have been using CVS for this project for well over 10 
> years.  I'd love to find a way to keep using it or to, at 
> least, remain compatible with it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ...Jake
> 
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