permissions problems on sftp repo [SOLVED]
Thomas Nichols
nichols7 at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 10 16:44:15 GMT 2008
John Arbash Meinel wrote on 2008/03/10 14:21:
> Thomas Nichols wrote:
>
> | So now my question is: why is this not the default action of bzr init?
> ... snip ...
>
> I'm not sure that it would help a lot. Specifically, a lot of systems
> default to
> creating files as something like "jameinel.jameinel" (they create a group
> account matching the username and set it as the default group). So at
> that point
> setgid doesn't help, you need to chown anyway, which means you need to
> know
> enough about chown and chmod. (Plus many default to a umask of 0022 so
> the group
> doesn't have write access anyway.)
>
> John
> =:->
All true - perhaps it is worth adding a `bzr` group as part of a default
bzr install, and having bzr init create .bzr as `drwxrws---
someuser:bzr` ? Then the instructions are pretty simple for end users:
----
To access this repository over ssh, use
bzr+ssh://user@host/path/to/repo. Every user writing to the directory
should belong to the `bzr` group on the server, and the repository
should allow write access to the group:
gpasswd -a funkyuser bzr
chmod -R g+w .bzr
----
Anyone wanting to run more than one repo, with different groups, is
still going to have to do some reading; but they probably only need
chgrp -R funkygroup .bzr
which seems rather easier to grok than the setgid/setuid/sticky-bit
malarkey. For most bzr+ssh users, might this make life rather simpler?
Not a big deal so long as the `chmod -R g+s .bzr` solution is documented
somewhere -- did I miss it? Or should I write some text for that?
-- Thomas.
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