Re: [Codestriker-user] rdiff failed -- permission problem

[David C. <dcc...@gm...>]

On Jan 22, 2008 9:42 PM, David Sitsky <dav...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> > Since I can run rdiff as user X from the command line, I know that I
> have
> > permissions to do so.  My theory is that when I create the topic and
> > Codestriker runs rdiff, it uses a different user and hence the problem.
>  I
> > tried adding 'apache' to our /etc/group, which is how we control who can
> > write a lock to /var/lock/cvs.  This did not help.
>
> That is correct - this command will be run as the same user running
> apache.  It would be worth running ps to confirm on your system that
> it is indeed the username you think it is.
>

Well, apache was the correct username, but I could not seem to get it to
recognize that apache was now a member of the group in question.  The
problem turned out to be that I needed to restart httpd after having made
the changes to /etc/group.  It was operating as if the group change had not
been made.

Thanks,
David