Hi Everyone
I have installed and set up the following:
Our cvsRepo on a redhat linux box contains 3 main project folders. Each dept
or project is given write/modify access to their own project by setting up
linux group permissions and by users being set up in the cvsroot/passwd file as
user:hashed_pw:systemUser and all users with write permission have been
declared in the cvsroot/writers file as well. Our users use a mixture of cvs
client, wincvs, eclipse plugin on their windows machines.
cvsRepo:
-CVSROOT (who should chown cvsroot?)
-dept1 (chown'd to cvsgrp1)
-dept2 (chown'd to cvsgrp2)
-dpet3 (chown'd to cvsgrp3)
content of cvsroot/passwd:
user1:hashed_pw:cvsgrp1
user2:hashed_pw:cvsgrp2
user3:hashed_pw:cvsgrp3
user4:hashed_pw:
content of cvsroot/writers:
user1
user2
user3
content of cvsroot/readers:
user4
passwd, readers, and writers files have been added to the checkoutlist.
cvsroot/history file has been chmod to ug+w. And LockDir=/tmp.
I have a few questions:
Who should chown cvsroot folder since there're 3 distinct groups now? Should a
4th master group be created to contain the other 3 groups and this master group
has the ownership of cvsroot? We did set up a master group who chowns cvsroot
and I tested by login as user 1-3 and was able to modify and commit to the
user's respective project only but not other projects, which is ideal. But
regardless all users were able to modify files in cvsroot to my dismay!
Except all users and cvs processes writing to the history file and me modifying
and checking in cvsroot admin files, do cvs processes need write permission to
cvsroot folder or any of the files in general? Ultimately, I don't want any of
the users except myself checking out cvsroot or look at the password file. How
can this be done? I thought of removing the entry for the passwd file from the
checkoutlist but then again I'd deny access to myself and I have to resort to
modifying this file directly on the server.
Thanks
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