[19871] in Athena Bugs
Re: cvsadmin group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Oct 5 18:58:15 2001
Message-Id: <200110052258.SAA09064@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: golem@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, gnu@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Oct 2001 21:48:28 -0000."
<200110052148.RAA00217@melbourne-city-street.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 18:58:12 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> Sent to bugs, because arguably it's a bug in the Athena environment
>> that the cvsadmin moira group exists, causing this behavior.
Sorry, don't buy it; there's precedent for creating moira groups that
correspond to priviledged groups in specific pieces of software. See
also "administrators".
>> Sent to gnu, because arguably it's a bug in the gnu locker that the
>> cvs installation there checks this silly precondition.
This I believe. If no one objects, I'll disable this checking in the
cvs installed in the gnu locker.
Garry
