[cvsnt] Re: Ownerships and Permissions

[Tony Hoyle]

Daniel Hedge wrote:
> If you are managing the contents of the configuration files in /etc
> for instance a change in ownerships when you try to rollback to a
> previous version would be catastrophic. Or managing the changes to teh
> contents of a webserver for another.

You really don't want to make /etc into a sandbox.  Plus for the sake of 
security it is a really bad idea to run a sandbox as root (it is in fact 
impossible to commit files as root).  I wouldn't be prepared to support 
such usage.

Many people manage webservers using cvs/cvsnt.  This is handled easily 
using postcommit scripts.  File ownership just isn't an issue - everyone 
has their own sandboxes and manages their own copy of the system.  The 
global copy needs to be writable for cvs users of course but once under 
source control no editing is done on the site itself.

There is simply no way of doing this on any normal OS anyway... the OS 
specifically stops you from creating files under a user other than 
yourself, to stop people using others' quotas.

Tony