[cvsnt] Re: How protect CVSROOT

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Feb 25 22:48:02 GMT 2003


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Zioowo wrote:

> Tony, please tell more technically, how could I hide CVSROOT folder,
> because my repository doesn't shared by system, users can access to
> cvsroot by cvsservice.
> LockDir directory already exists out of repository with read & write
> privilleges for users.
> 
Just set the permissions on the CVSROOT folder so that they can't write to
it (except the history, which always needs to be writable).

You could use acls to achieve the same thing (cvs lsacl/cvs chacl), but
using NT file permissions is safer, generally.

Tony



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