I took that excerpt from Karl Fogel's Book, Open Source Dev with CVS, chp 4 
Repo Admin, page 115.  Thanks for the link.
 
> Subject: Re: CVS Migration
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:34:47 -0400
> CC: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> 
> Rez P writes:
> > 
> > Our repository is located at /cvs with 3 main directories underneath
> > it, each representing an intra-department in our group. I would like
> > each dept to have r/w access to their own directory but read-only access
> > to the other 2 directories as well. And I came across this example or
> > excerpt from the CVS manual which I think needs a bit more explanation
> > as I find it a bit ambiguous, see below.
> 
> Which CVS manual are you looking at? I don't see anything like what you
> quoted in the official manual. You can do what you want with just
> normal file system permissions, you don't need to mess with mapping
> users or the readers/writers files. See the real manual for details:
> 
> <http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_2.html#SEC13>
> -- 
> Larry Jones
> 
> Rats. I can't tell my gum from my Silly Putty. -- Calvin

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