[cvsnt] Re: chacl usage

[Tony Hoyle]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:57:40 -0700 (PDT), Shawn Garner
<shawndgarner at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I tried to do a chacl for a user on a project that was
>in the cvs repository already and it told me it
>couldn't find the directory and said I should checkout
>the project first.
>
>Any tips to what I'm doing wrong on this?

You have to do it within a checked out repository, as the error says.

>the username is for example bill and I want to give
>him read write permissions on the projectname
>directory within the respository directory c:\cvsrepo\
>so the full path would be c:\cvsrepo\projectname.
>
chacl does not take absolute paths of any kind.  It works on sandbox
folders.

Tony