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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Configuration file versioning
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James Blackwell |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Configuration file versioning |
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Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:23:53 -0500 |
>> I am looking for a program for configuration file versioning ("/etc").
>> Has Arch the capability to store file owners and access permissions?
>> I tried Subversion but after a checkout my shadow file was world
>> readable. Is it the same with Arch?
>
> Arch stores permissions, but I don't *think* it does ownership. The
> problem is that, with multiple people checking out a file, who should
> own the file?=
Excellent detail that I forgot to mention. You're correct that arch
doesn't reproduce ownership. (In fact, it couldn't unless its suid, and
that's a conversation that arch is nowhere near to having)
> Also, on most Unix-like systems, chown is a privileged operation, so if you
> check out a repo as a non-root user, you can't change the ownership to
> someone else anyway.
>
> For all of that, it wouldn't be too tricky to write a wrapper which, on
> commit and checkout / update, stored and retrieved/applied ownership
> settings. That would work equally well with SVN as with Arch, but pretend I
> didn't say that. <grin>
>
> - Matt
>
> --=20
> "[the average computer user] has been served so poorly that he expects his
> system to crash all the time, and we witness a massive worldwide
> distribution of bug-ridden software for which we should be deeply ashamed."
> -- Edsger Dijkstra
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Configuration file versioning, Matthew Palmer, 2005/02/18
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