Re: read only cvs account...?

[MKlinke <mklinke axsi com>]

On Saturday 31 May 2003 18:46, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2003 11:53 am, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > Are you using CVS over pserver or ssh?  If it's over ssh, add a
> > user on the system for "someone" and don't add them to the group
> > that has write access to the cvs repository.
>
> i did that, i'm using cvs over ssh and i made an account for that
> user.  that account does not have write access to the module dir in
> my cvsroot.  but when i use that account to checkout the module, it
> complains about not being able to create a directory lock in the
> module directory:
>
> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for
> `/shared/cvsroot//lordorean' (/shared/cvsroot//lordorean/#cvs.lock):
> Permission denied
> cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
> `/shared/cvsroot//lordorean'
> cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up
>
> thanks for the help,
> -- christopher


You can set up an alternative LockDir in $CVSROOT/config that'll have 
write permission for your read-only user. If you search the archives 
for "LockDir" at:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/

you'll find a lot of discussion on this topic.

Regards,  Mike Klinke