Subject: Re: cvs and umask
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:06:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Ben Laurie <ben@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199603142214.WAA16067@tees> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 14,
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> Ok, found a rather straightforward solution to this. options.h has this in it.
> 
> /* 
>  * The default umask to use when creating or otherwise setting file or
>  * directory permissions in the repository.  Must be a value in the
>  * range of 0 through 0777.  For example, a value of 002 allows group
>  * rwx access and world rx access; a value of 007 allows group rwx
>  * access but no world access.  This value is overridden by the value
>  * of the CVSUMASK environment variable, which is interpreted as an
>  * octal number.
>  */
> #ifndef UMASK_DFLT
> #define UMASK_DFLT      002
> #endif 
> 
> 
> What is this set to for you Ben? Anyway, all you need to do is make
> sure CVSUMASK is set appropriately and then everything should be fine.
> 
> Everyone else, please take note also. In your configuration set
> CVSUMASK to be 002.

Surely this has to be set at the server end? Are you sure it works - coz I
seem to remember that one of the "improvements" in 1.7 is that it tries to
preserve file permissions.

Cheers,

Ben.

> 

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