Re: [gui-dev] CVS lockup in the gui module for its themes folder - badaccess rights

On Friday 26 November 2004 02:31 pm, Sam Berlin wrote:
> Fixed now -- I believe it's a problem with the way CVS creates new
> directories.

Sounds like you may have the CVS directories misconfigured.  Everyone 
with write permission should be in a group and that group should own all 
the files.  The way to do this is to create the top dir with the right 
group ownership and 2775 permissions.

If you don't have this, first change the ownership: 
	chgroup -R groupname topdirname
Now, change the guid bit set on the directories.  Assuming that you are 
using a unix server for CVS, the guid bit of the CVS directories should 
be set.  Use "chmod g+s directory" for a single directory.  A quick 
script or find invocation will be needed to set it in every directory.

The point of the guid bit is that it means any file or dir created in the 
guid directory will be owned by the same group, so this problem won't 
reoccur.

Of course, I could be reading a lot or hooey into your one line account 
and be totally off base, here.  If so, then please ignore me.  :-)

Michael

> Thanks,
>  Sam
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:gui-dev-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Philippe Verdy
> > Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:23 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [gui-dev] CVS lockup in the gui module for its themes
> > folder - badaccess rights
> >
> > I can't update the GUI module completely, because of strange bad
> > access rights for a lock folder used in CVS:
> >
> > cvs server: Updating com/limegroup/gnutella/gui/themes
> > cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> > `/cvs/gui/com/limegroup/gnutella/gui/themes'
> > (/usr/local/tigris/data/helm/cvs/lock/gui/com/limegroup/gnutella/gui
> >/theme s/#cvs.lock):
> > Permission denied
> > cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> > `/cvs/gui/com/limegroup/gnutella/gui/themes'
> > cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
> >
> > Apparently, the .../cvs/lock/... directory was created by the wrong
> > user, and denies access to users in the group normally granted
> > update accesses to
> > the GUI module.
> >
> > (note that the user "guest" is part of that group which should be
> > able to get locks to perform updates, even if it is not granted
> > additions/deletions/commit)
> >
> > Because of this lock, that occurs only for that subfolder, the
> > following folders after "/gui/themes" are not updated, and must be
> > updated separately... This is new, because in the past even "guest"
> > could update its
> > sources...
> >
> > Only LimeWire admins can correct this by checking the Unix folder
> > ownerships
> > and access rights in the cvs/lock folder indicated above.
> >
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