On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 12:54:05AM -0400, Stephen Trotter wrote: > hi, > i was attempting a fresh install of 6.0 and got to the part where you pull > the source tree and update the system to stable. > i was stuck because the faq states you can (should) use a regular user with > cvs, and i kept getting a permission error from cvs when attempting to run > from /usr > so, just wondering if anyone else was getting this, or if there is > something that i missed. >
Is your user member of the group wsrc? Use id(1), for example. By default, /usr/src is owned by root:wsrc with permissions 0775. This means that you need to be root or a member of group wsrc in order to write to it. FAQ 5 'avoiding root' tells you how to add your user to wsrc before running cvs: user mod -G wsrc youruser
