[cvsnt] Setting ACL's

[dzielke at aep.com]

Sure, no problem!  :-)  I struggled through this too. 

First of all, what version of CVSNT are you running?  The pre-2.5.01 
versions don't do permission inheritance (you have to spell it out for 
each folder), you can't specify groups of people (in the CVSROOT/group 
file) for access, and some early versions even give errors and create 
malformed XML files.  For starters, go through the security chapter in the 
cvsnt manual (chapter 3), then read Appendix A about the chacl command.

Here's the order you'll want to run the cvs commands.  Let's assume that 
you have cvs userids called "joe" and "fred."  Joe creates a project and 
wants to only give permission to Fred to access his project.  First step 
is to tell CVS that Joe owns the folder:

> cvs chown joe

Then he gives himself full control:

> cvs chacl -u joe -a read,write,create,tag,control

Now he adds Fred's access, but he only wants Fred to have read and write 
access (you tell cvs what Fred CAN do - and then by default he can't 
create tags, new files or folders, and can't change ACL permissions):

> cvs chacl -u fred -a read,write

Now Joe sets the permissions that keep all others out of the project:

> cvs chacl -a noread,nowrite,nocreate,notag,nocontrol

This command lists out the permissions set for the folder:

> cvs lsacl

Hope that helps.....


Thanks,
Don Zielke
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"DeFurio, Rachelle" <Rachelle.DeFurio at Sensis.com>
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06/28/2005 04:13 PM

 
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        Subject:        [cvsnt] Setting ACL's


I need some help setting Directory ACL's on the server side of CVS, anyone
with knowledge please help.  I am at the ground level with this and not 
sure
what the next step is.. Help
-Rachelle
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