Re: [Sandweb-users] Shared Users and Permissions

[Robert H. <ro...@ro...>]

Hi Jim,

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:25:13AM -0800, Jim wrote:
> 1. All files in the sandbox are owned by the apache
> user (www). If the original file had 444 permission,
> then it now has 644. Even though I've made www in the
> same group as the developers, they can't edit the file
> from the Unix command line like I need them to. Is
> there a way for the files to be owned by the user
> logging into Sandweb and not the apache user?


There is no way to do this currently, but SandWeb could be made to do an
"su" when doing CVS operations, which may address your problem.

Can you explain exactly what you want to do?


> 2. Along the same lines, when a user edits a file then
> commits it back to the CVS repository, the comments
> are owned by www. I need them the comments to come
> from the developer so we can tell who did what changes
> to the code.


We've been disussing this over the past few days. Right now the
solutions is: don't use local or pserver, use SSH. If performance
becomes an issue, I have some patches that enable RSH instead that I can
check in if anyone else is interested.



Thanks,
Rob