Re: [Sheflug] Weird permissions problems

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:54 pm, Richard Stevenson wrote:
> Old BSD hack:  chown candrews:devel dirname; chmod 2775 dirname
>
> touch a file in there now, and it'll have group devel.  As for the umask,
> that's more difficult.  How about just using cvs instead?

This is exactly what I did, and sure enough, the setguid worked. It was just 
the umask problem.

We are using CVS, incidentally. The problem is that although all developers 
get their own box to check out the code and mess about, it has been decided 
that all the folks down in marketting can have one box. Due to the nature of 
the beast we are dealing with, there is a very specific directory structure, 
and so everyone uses the same checkout, with different people using their own 
CVSROOT and login details to access it. This allows us to have all the 
marketting folk modifying the same physical files, and still use CVS so the 
rest of us can update and see the mayhem.

Don't even try to tell me what a bad idea it is. I know :) Just trying to get 
them all to use wincvs and a local checkout instead of all this nonsense is 
nigh on impossible.  Problem is that they are not technical folks, and still 
get in a total confused mess over such concepts as case sensitive filenames 
:-/

Cheers,

Craig
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