X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B59D16D.9040501@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:25:17 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with svn and users over multiple machines References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 > gary AT 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 > gary AT 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple