Re: CVS doesn't do permissions?

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

755 is rwx, rx, rx which is necessary for CGI's.

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Daniel E. Markle wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 04:10:33PM -0700, Aaron D. Turner wrote:
> > I had to chmod a file 755 (cgi) and after I edit the file so that CVS will
> > detect the change and do a cvs commit, the file still has the old perms on
> 
> The CVS scripts set chmod g+rw and chown .cvs to preserve the integrity of the
> commit system.  These should be the only changes CVS makes to the permissions.
> 
> What is 755?  I never could get the numbers right, I always use the letters.
> 
> If nothing else I can change the permissions manually in the CVS tree.  Let me
> know.
> 
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