Larry
Mark Priest wrote:
Hello,
I was able to fix the problem with file permissions by adding the cvs users into the Administrators group. This should not be necessary from my understanding of Cygwin and the ntsec patch. This is a bit of a security hole since these users have no reason to be Administrators on my Windows XP Professional server. I think that the permission problem I am experiencing in the cvs repository is some kind of bug in the ntsec patch.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Priest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 3:33 AM Subject: File Permission Problems on Windows XP, cygwin 1.3.22
Hello,
I am serving a cvs repository from a Windows XP Professional machine under Cygwin 1.3.22 and I believe that I am having a file permissions problem in the cvs repository. My repository is located at /cvs and all cvs users belong to the "cvs" group as their primary group. All directories in the repository have rwx permissions for this group as well as for the owner. Therefore, I should be able to replace the ,v files with a new version as part of a commit for any users in the cvs group. However, only the owner
of
each ,v file (i.e. the developer that added or last modified the file) can successfully commit. The CYGWIN environment variable is set to 'ntsec'.
When I commit files from a user that is not the owner of the file the
commit
fails as follows:
cvs -t commit -m "try commit" readme.txt (in directory C:\dev\bar) cvs commit: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs -> Starting server: plink.exe 192.168.2.105 -i C:\keys\mpriest_private.PPK -l markp cvs server -> Sending file `readme.txt' to server S-> write_lock(/cvs/bar) S-> checkout (/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v, 1.1.1.1, , (function)) S-> Parse_Info (/cvs/CVSROOT/commitinfo, bar, ALL) Checking in readme.txt; /cvs/bar/readme.txt,v <-- readme.txt S-> Parse_Info (/cvs/CVSROOT/verifymsg, bar, not ALL) S-> checkout (/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v, 1.1, -ko, /tmp/cvs003472) new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1 S-> rename(/cvs/bar/,readme.txt,,/cvs/bar/readme.txt,v) cvs [server aborted]: cannot rename file /cvs/bar/,readme.txt, to /cvs/bar/readme.txt,v: Permission denied S-> unlink_file(/cvs/bar/,readme.txt,) S-> Lock_Cleanup()
I have seen this error message discussed on the cvs mailing list archives but those discussion were only relevant for cases where people hosted the repository on a network share. My /cvs repository is in a local hard disk directory.
When I try to emulate a file move as this same user, markp, directly in
the
repository at the cygwin command prompt I experience the same permission error as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ id uid=1019(markp) gid=1015(cvs) groups=513(None),545(Users),1015(cvs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ pwd /cvs/bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ ls -alF total 3 drwxrwxr-x+ 2 cvs cvs 0 Jul 3 02:48 ./ drwxrwxr-x+ 7 cvs cvs 0 Jun 30 17:16 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v -r--r--r-- 1 cvsuser cvs 423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ cp readme.txt,v tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ ls -alF total 4 drwxrwxr-x+ 2 cvs cvs 0 Jul 3 02:50 ./ drwxrwxr-x+ 7 cvs cvs 0 Jun 30 17:16 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v -r--r--r-- 1 cvsuser cvs 423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 423 Jul 3 02:50 tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ mv tmp readme.txt,v mv: cannot move `tmp' to `readme.txt,v': Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ echo $CYGWIN ntsec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar
When I perform this same operation as the file owner the attempt succeeds (and so does a regular CVS commit operation) as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ id uid=1016(cvsuser) gid=1015(cvs) groups=513(None),545(Users),1015(cvs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ echo $CYGWIN ntsec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ pwd /cvs/bar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ ls -alF total 3 drwxrwxr-x+ 2 cvs cvs 0 Jul 3 02:53 ./ drwxrwxr-x+ 7 cvs cvs 0 Jun 30 17:16 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v -r--r--r-- 1 cvsuser cvs 423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ cp readme.txt,v tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ ls -alF total 4 drwxrwxr-x+ 2 cvs cvs 0 Jul 3 02:53 ./ drwxrwxr-x+ 7 cvs cvs 0 Jun 30 17:16 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v -r--r--r-- 1 cvsuser cvs 423 Jun 30 17:33 readme.txt,v -r--r--r-- 1 cvsuser cvs 423 Jul 3 02:53 tmp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ mv tmp readme.txt,v
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cvs/bar $ ls -alF total 3 drwxrwxr-x+ 2 cvs cvs 0 Jul 3 02:53 ./ drwxrwxr-x+ 7 cvs cvs 0 Jun 30 17:16 ../ -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 542 Jun 30 17:27 bar.c,v -r--r--r-- 1 markp cvs 406 Jun 30 17:16 bar.h,v -r--r--r-- 1 cvsuser cvs 423 Jul 3 02:53 readme.txt,v
I have attached the results of cygcheck to this email and I have the
CYGWIN
environment variable set to 'ntsec'.
Please help me understand what is wrong with my repository file
permissions.
Thanks, Mark
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