Got it!
I followed the instructions describe in the URL below and now I can
use gid to give write permission to the group of Apache's user. The
umask I'm using is 0002.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/build.php
Cidral
2006/1/19, Célio Cidral Junior <ccidral.newsbox@gmail.com>:
> I'm new to Linux, so I'm finding things out bit by bit.
>
> To enable the use of gid instead of uid, I think changing the umask
> for the Apache's process should solve the problem. I could change it
> to something like 012, so that the group has write permission to newly
> created files. However, I don't know how to change the umask for a
> certain process. I tried to change it in ~/.bashrc (from Apache's
> running user's home directory), but it worked not.
>
> If somebody has some hint, please let me know.
>
> Cidral
>
> 2006/1/19, Célio Cidral Junior <ccidral.newsbox@gmail.com>:
> > I solved this problem by replacing the gid=nas by uid=ccidral and now
> > it's working fine. The mount command now looks like this:
> >
> > mount -t cifs -o
> > uid=ccidral,username=ccidral,password=my-password-here
> > //10.1.1.132/DEVELOPMENT$ /mnt/repositories
> >
> > Of course, uid=ccidral refers to a local user and username=ccidral
> > refers to a NT Domain user, but it's not mandatory to use the same
> > name for both.
> >
> > I wondered why it didn't work with only the gid. Since the user as
> > which Apache is actually running is in the 'nas' group, it seemed to
> > me that it should work. But looking inside a transaction directory of
> > a failed commit, I noticed that only the owner has both read and write
> > grants to the file, as you can see below. And in that case root was
> > the owner of everything under that directory.
> >
> > ccidral@m195601-ubuntu:/repo/nas/xyz/db/transactions/1-2.txn$ ls -l
> > total 1
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root repo 0 2006-01-19 14:55 changes
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root repo 4 2006-01-19 14:55 next-ids
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root repo 124 2006-01-19 14:55 node.0.0
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root repo 0 2006-01-19 14:55 props
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root repo 0 2006-01-19 14:55 rev
> >
> > Setting the uid=ccidral instead of gid caused the filesystem to set
> > ccidral as the owner, and then my commits started working because
> > Apache was running with the same user passed as an option to the mount
> > command.
> >
> > Cidral
> >
> > 2006/1/17, Célio Cidral Junior <ccidral.newsbox@gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have googled a lot about this issue but could not find anything that
> > > could help me. My apologies if this subject was already discussed a
> > > lot.
> > >
> > > I installed and configured Apache and Subversion in a Linux box in
> > > order to do some tests with repositories in a Samba share. I mounted
> > > the share and created some repositories, then activated the httpd
> > > server. But all I can do is to browse the repositories (using a web
> > > browser) and check outs. When I try to commit something, Subversion
> > > gives me:
> > >
> > > ccidral@m195601-ubuntu:~/ens$ svn status
> > > A a-text-file
> > > ccidral@m195601-ubuntu:~/ens$ svn commit -m "My first commit"
> > > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> > > svn: Can't open file
> > > '/mnt/development/APPS/CRM/TEMP/ens/db/transactions/0-3.txn/props':
> > > Permission denied
> > >
> > > It's likely a problem with read/write permissions on the repository.
> > > However everything seems to be correct, and I can't figure out what's
> > > wrong. The transactions are created but it seems that they cannot be
> > > read. As you can see below, the transactions remain in the repository.
> > >
> > > root@m195601-ubuntu:/mnt/development/APPS/CRM/TEMP/ens# svnadmin lstxns .
> > > 0-1
> > > 0-2
> > > 0-3
> > >
> > > The storage media is a NAS server. Below is the command I have
> > > executed to mount the share.
> > >
> > > root@m195601-ubuntu:/mnt# mount -t cifs -o
> > > gid=nas,username=ccidral,password=my-password-here
> > > //10.1.1.132/DEVELOPMENT$/APPS/CRM/TEMP repositories
> > >
> > > There's a group called nas and it's used to mount the share (gid=nas).
> > > Apache is configured to run as the user ccidral which is in the nas
> > > group. Below is what's in httpd.conf:
> > >
> > > User ccidral
> > > Group nas
> > >
> > > And below are the current permissions on the repository. Note that I'm
> > > listing the dir as ccidral, so it has proper permissions.
> > >
> > > ccidral@m195601-ubuntu:/mnt/development/APPS/CRM/TEMP/ens$ ls -l
> > > total 1
> > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root nas 0 2006-01-17 10:46 conf
> > > drwxrwxrwx 1 root nas 0 2006-01-17 10:46 dav
> > > drwxrwxrwx 1 root nas 0 2006-01-17 10:46 db
> > > -r-xr-Sr-t 1 root nas 2 2006-01-17 10:46 format
> > > drwxrwxrwx 1 root nas 0 2006-01-17 10:46 hooks
> > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root nas 0 2006-01-17 10:46 locks
> > > -rwxrwSrwt 1 root nas 229 2006-01-17 10:46 README.txt
> > >
> > > Some version info: Subversion 1.3.0 (r17949); Apache 2.0.55; Samba
> > > 3.0.14a-6ubuntu1.
> > >
> > > May somebody shed some light. If you need more information, please let me know.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Celio Cidral Junior
> > >
> >
>
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