On 01/22/2010 04:21 AM, Gary . wrote:
I don't know if this is a Cygwin related problem or if I am just being
stupid. Probably the latter, but maybe in that case some kind soul
will take pity on me.
I added a new user "svn" and a new group "subversion-user", basically
following http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00933.html with
the addition of also doing mkgroup -l -g subversion-user>>
/etc/group.
I then created a subversion repository in the usual way, on an NDAS
drive, and then changed the file permissions so that they are owned by
user svn and can be modified by members of the group subversion-user.
I could then add and commit files to my repository. So far so good.
I also want to be able to work on another machine in a similar manner,
so did the same things on that machine regarding user and group as I
did on the first. My suspicion is that I shouldn't have, I should have
done something else instead, because I see
g...@mimosa ~
$ ls -l /svn/db
total 14
-rw-r--r--+ 1 gary Kein 2 2010-01-22 09:34 current
-r--r--r-- 1 svn subversion-user 22 2010-01-22 08:22 format
-rw-r--r-- 1 svn subversion-user 5 2010-01-22 08:22 fs-type
-rw-r--r-- 1 svn subversion-user 1920 2010-01-22 08:22 fsfs.conf
(etc.)
from the first machine...
...but see
g...@sunflower ~
$ ls -l /svn/db
total 14
-rw-r--r--+ 1 ???????? ???????? 2 2010-01-22 09:34 current
-r--r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 22 2010-01-22 08:22 format
-rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 5 2010-01-22 08:22 fs-type
-rw-r--r-- 1 ???????? ???????? 1920 2010-01-22 08:22 fsfs.conf
(etc.)
from the second.
The ???????? means that Cygwin on the second machine doesn't know the owner
of these files. This means the user and group IDs are missing from the
'/etc/passwd'
and '/etc/group' files. Add them and this problem should go away. See the
discussion of security in the Cygwin Users Guide for more details.
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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