[olug] share a folder rw, but not deletable?
Jay Hannah
jay at jays.net
Fri Mar 28 12:29:29 UTC 2003
"Matthew G. Marsh" wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, William E. Kempf wrote:
> > Apply more advanced security. For example, I administer multiple CVS
> > repositories for a few development teams. We would like to have a
> > repository secured such that: Team A has full access; Other Teams have
> > read only access; Everyone else has no access.
>
> Never rely on a filesystem to secure a program ;-} Just ask your friendly
> local NTFS guru what the DATA fork means...
Kudos to all on this informative thread!!
We happen to do what Matthew suggests for our CVS: all "read only"
access is controlled by Apache/WinCVS, not by Unix filesystem
permissions. I'll leave arguments for or against the moral fortitude of
filesystem ACLs as an excercise for the reader. -grin-
j
Omaha Perl Mongers: http://omaha.pm.org
More information about the OLUG
mailing list