[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT on Linux question...

Andreas Tscharner andreas.tscharner at metromec.ch
Tue Dec 6 07:36:23 GMT 2005


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John Cole wrote:
> This is probably more of a unix question than a cvs question, but...
> 
> I have setup CVSNT on linux, but I've run into a small problem.  When a user
> commits their files up, the owner and group are set to that username.  After
> that, no one else can update that file because of file permissions (and I
> don't want to set world writable on those files). It's been a while since I
> had to do a lot of unix stuff, so I don't remember how to solve this.  I
> have a 'cvs' group that I would like all of the added files to be a part of,
> what do I need to do to make new files use this group?

Maybe you want to set the user's umask in a way, that the files are 
group/world readable?

Best regards
	Andreas
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