Unix Permission Problems for my CVS

[obelix]

Well I am just in the midst of setting up CVS for OS X an have ran into a road block. What I want to be able to do is have the main user (obelix) in my case be able to have read/write permissions on the entire /usr/local/cvsrep folder including all files and nested folders.

I have made obelix a member of the cvs-user group

So upon doing an ls -la I find that

Praetorian:/usr/local/cvsrep/cvsroot obelix$ ls -la
total 264
drwxrwxr-x 36 root cvs-user 1224 24 Nov 18:14 .
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 493 24 Nov 17:24 .#checkoutlist
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 760 24 Nov 17:24 .#commitinfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 364 24 Nov 17:24 .#config
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 753 24 Nov 17:24 .#cvswrappers
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1025 24 Nov 17:24 .#editinfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1141 24 Nov 17:24 .#loginfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1151 24 Nov 17:24 .#modules
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 564 24 Nov 17:24 .#notify
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 649 24 Nov 17:24 .#rcsinfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 879 24 Nov 17:24 .#taginfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1026 24 Nov 17:24 .#verifymsg
drwxrwxr-x 4 root cvs-user 136 24 Nov 18:18 ..
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 493 24 Nov 18:14 checkoutlist
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 694 24 Nov 17:24 checkoutlist,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 760 24 Nov 18:14 commitinfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 961 24 Nov 17:24 commitinfo,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 364 24 Nov 18:14 config
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 565 24 Nov 17:24 config,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 753 24 Nov 18:14 cvswrappers
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 954 24 Nov 17:24 cvswrappers,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1025 24 Nov 18:14 editinfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1226 24 Nov 17:24 editinfo,v
-rw-rwxr-- 1 root cvs-user 0 24 Nov 17:24 history
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1141 24 Nov 18:14 loginfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1342 24 Nov 17:24 loginfo,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1151 24 Nov 18:14 modules
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1352 24 Nov 17:24 modules,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 564 24 Nov 18:14 notify
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 765 24 Nov 17:24 notify,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 649 24 Nov 18:14 rcsinfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 850 24 Nov 17:24 rcsinfo,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 879 24 Nov 18:14 taginfo
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1080 24 Nov 17:24 taginfo,v
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1026 24 Nov 18:14 verifymsg
-r--rw-r-- 1 root cvs-user 1227 24 Nov 17:24 verifymsg,v

But yet.... I still cannot write anything...

Praetorian:~ obelix$ cvs status
cvs status: Sorry, you don't have read/write access to the history file
cvs [status aborted]: /usr/local/cvsrep/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied

 

[wrldwzrd89]

One problem I noticed right away with the permissions you have set: cvs-user shouldn't have execute permission on history if the file isn't executable. See if removing the execute permission does the trick. For doing this, I'd use "chmod -x history" while in the CVSROOT directory.