[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT & File Permissions

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Nov 18 13:06:36 GMT 2004


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Richard Dje wrote:
>  > > What is weird is that permissions of directories under 'Mymodule' are
>  > > not changed, only files' permission are modified from 'rwx' to 'r-x'.
>  > Do you have Cygwin installed on your server? What's the value of the CYGWIN
>  > environment variable?
> 
> Yes, I installed CYGWIN so as to have access to tools like, *chmod*,
> *chgrp*, *apache*, *viewcvs*, etc...
> 
> After reading your reply, i checked and was surprised not to see CYGWIN
> environment variable set. 
> To be honest i didn't notice it wasn't set. :)
> 
> So you think there may be some kind of interaction between CVSNT and
> CYGWIN ?
> 
If it's not set then there won't be any issue - CVSNT always uses the 
non-intrusive ntea by default as ntsec can be harder to get right (so 
much so that 2.0.6x will always use ntea for the server side).

I can't remember what 2.0.49 did though...

Tony



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