[ale] Permissions Q

[chriscoleman at mail.clayton.edu (Chris Coleman)]

Ex. 1
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I have a CVS repository that is currently owned by root and its group is
root. What is the best way to allow users access? Should I leave the Owner
and Group as root and allow Others read and write access? Should I create a
new group that is specifically for CVS, give it read and write privileges
and add each user to it?

>> Don't open up the directory to others. Keep control over who can access or create files
   in the directory by creating a CVS group, give CVS group ownership, and add users to the CVS 
   group.

Ex. 2
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I am running Tomcat under user tomcat4. I develop and build my java classes
under user mmillson. In order to deploy my classes, I have to copy them into
a directory owned by tomcat4. Is it better to add the permissions to Others
or add mmillson to the tomcat4 group?

>> Add the user to the tomcat4 group is better.


Thank you,
Mike


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