I am installing cvs on Redhat Linux 7 and I am trying to set the group
automatically to the group of the repository no matter which group is the
login group of the person who creates a module or file.

For example I have a respository at /home/apt/dtp/cvsroot.

I set the permissions on the dtp directory by using the command

chgrp dtp /home/apt/dtp
chmod 6770 /home/apt/dtp.

The file permissions are:

drwsrws--- 4  apt   stp  4096 Mar 27 20:31 dtp

When a user creates a new module in cvs whose group is apt the module gets
created with the group apt not dtp as I expected.  This causes problems then
for users of cvs who belong to group dtp but apt. If I go into the directory
/home/apt/dtp/cvsroot and create a directory from the command line it has
the correct group of dtp.  If I go furhter down into the
/home/apt/dtp/cvsroot/demo directory and create a new directory it doesn't
have the correct group.

I thought by setting the directory permissions in this manner all the files
and directories created in the dtp repository would have a group set of dtp.
Any ideas what I am doing wrong or is something to do with the way cvs
works?

Thanks

Shaun

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Shaun Campbell wrote:
> I am installing cvs on Redhat Linux 7 and I am trying to set the group
> automatically to the group of the repository no matter which group is the
> login group of the person who creates a module or file.
>
> For example I have a respository at /home/apt/dtp/cvsroot.
>
> I set the permissions on the dtp directory by using the command
>
> chgrp dtp /home/apt/dtp
> chmod 6770 /home/apt/dtp.
>
> The file permissions are:
>
> drwsrws--- 4  apt   stp  4096 Mar 27 20:31 dtp
>
> When a user creates a new module in cvs whose group is apt the module gets
> created with the group apt not dtp as I expected.  This causes problems th
en
> for users of cvs who belong to group dtp but apt. If I go into the directo
ry
> /home/apt/dtp/cvsroot and create a directory from the command line it has
> the correct group of dtp.  If I go furhter down into the
> /home/apt/dtp/cvsroot/demo directory and create a new directory it doesn't
> have the correct group.
>
> I thought by setting the directory permissions in this manner all the file
s
> and directories created in the dtp repository would have a group set of dt
p.
> Any ideas what I am doing wrong or is something to do with the way cvs
> works?
>
> Thanks
>
> Shaun
>
>
>
>


Assuming that you are the user uuu
mkdir -m 777 /home/spt/dtp
chgrp dtp /home/spt/dtp
should create the directory
drwxrwxrwx 4  uuu   dtp  4096 Mar 27 20:31 dtp

Then,
chmod g+s dtp
should get
drwxrwsrwx 4  uuu   dtp  4096 Mar 27 20:31 dtp

Then, everything under the directory dtp should be created
with the group dtp regardless of the owner.

Alvin SIU

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