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Re: file permissions
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Lu Fang" <lufangprc at hotmail dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:02:52 -0000
- Subject: Re: file permissions
- References: <F1076ZoD3jrNPd3aO1j0000cd75@hotmail.com>
Lu Fang wrote:
> Hi, all
> I have installed CVS with cygwin under windows2k operation system. It is
> working properly. Further more,I want to specify the files permissions for
> different group of users. I have read the cvs manualfrom
>
> <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC13>
>
> and I have used the command "chmod" to specify a read only access rights
> to the repository for the user named "cvsuser", but I found that when I
> log in as "cvsuser" and tried to access the repository, I can check out
> file and commit file properly, except that there is a warning which said
> that "can not write to history file". What I want is that there should be
> a totally fail if without write permission, but not only a warning there.
>
> By the way, can I make the restriction to prevent some user from reading
> some files from the repository? It seems that I can not take away the read
> permission from users by using command "chmod". It seems that all the
> directories and files should be readable at least for all the users.
>
> Can anyone give some help? thanks alot!
Read the CVS manual more carefully, and if you still can't get it working,
give *specific* details (i.e. exact permissions set).
Max.
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