Re: WC permissions

Philip Martin wrote:

>Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
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>>Philip Martin wrote:
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>>>Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
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>>>>The only way I know to do this on Unix (if your filesystem doesn't have
>>>>inheritable ACLs) is to put all your users into the same group (doesn't
>>>>have to be the primary group), use umask 002 and set the sticky-group
>>>>bit on the directories in the subversion WC.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>On my system chmod(2) says
>>>
>>>"The effective UID of the process must be zero or must match the
>>> owner of the file."
>>>
>>>so the sticky bit does not appear to solve the shared working copy
>>>problem. It does solve the shared repository problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Hm? What does chmod have to do with sticky group ownership?
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>Perhaps I misunderstood, I thought you were suggesting that group
>access (hence the sticky bit) would be sufficient for shared working
>copies.
>
>
No, you didn't misunderstand, but I forgot about us making files
read-only, and of course chmod requires ownership. How boring.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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