Question

I am using Windows 2003, Cyrgwin, Activeperl and IIS has a web server. If I edit a topic somewhere, I can do it only once. As soon as I want to add something else, the file is locked. So When I checked the permissions on the file, the file is owned with the user NONE which does not exists in IIS (strange ...) but my 'nobody' user on my webserver is IUSR_XXX. Is there a way to change how RCS lock the files with the same user as the web server or should I have to change the user in my IIS web server ?

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-- RomainPelissier - 02 Feb 2006

Answer

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I have spend a couple of hours on some investigation about this problem and I think that I may have to add another question here. Anyway, it seems (seems only, I am not a twiki expert - first install - and not at all a perl or rcs expert) that when RCS/twiki try to place a lock (adding the user into the xxxx,v file) it also change the permission on the xxx,v file at the file system level So even if the twikiguest user is editing something, everything goes wrong to save because the file permissions have changed (from the IUSR_xxx web user to the user NONE - Server\NONE in fact). My guess is that the user NONE is hardcoded in the RCS string used to lock the file or maybe somewhre in the program itself If someone can confirm that for me, it could be start to solve this issue.

-- RomainPelissier - 03 Feb 2006

Ok, the issue is not resolve but I will try to post using a different question now that I know that the problem is file permissions with Cygwin

-- RomainPelissier - 19 Feb 2006