[cvsnt] Restricting file access

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Fri Sep 19 09:33:41 BST 2003


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Thorsten Lang wrote:

>
> So far I keep getting the same error whenever I try to commit to the
> repository:
> "cvs [server aborted]: could not open lock file
> `/var/cvsnt/CVSROOT/,modules,': Permission denied"
> 
> The odd thing about it is that the lockfiles do get created in
> /var/lock/cvsntlocks despite the above error message.
> 
You need to give the users write access to the directory to be able to
give the users write access to any files in it.  LockDir doesn't really help
here, since you're trying to write not just read.

Tony



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