[admin] Re: climacs cvsroot ownership

Christophe Rhodes csr21 at cam.ac.uk
Tue May 17 09:38:46 UTC 2005


Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> The ownership on the directory /project/climacs/cvsroot (and some of
> its subdirectories) looks wrong.  I would have expected the
> directories to be group-owned by the climacs group, but instead
> they're owned by group 205 -- meaning that I, as a member of the
> climacs group, can't create a new module, as I fail to create the
> directory in /project/climacs/cvsroot that is needed.
>
> Could this be fixed, please, by altering the group ownership of
>   /project/cvsroot/climacs
>   /project/cvsroot/climacs/CVSROOT
>   /project/cvsroot/climacs/climacs
> to the climacs group?

Oh, wait.  From /etc/group

climacs:!:206:rstrandh,www-data,ejohnson,gbaumann,tmoore,abakic,abridgewater,mvilleneuve,crhodes,pfong,nayad,bmery,bmastenbrook
closer:!:206:pcostanza,www-data

So maybe the right answer is that the climacs group should be
renumbered to 205.

Thanks,

Christophe



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