Problem with svn and users over multiple machines

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 01/22/2010 04:21 AM, Gary . wrote:
> I don't know if this is a Cygwin related problem or if I am just being
> stupid. Probably the latter, but maybe in that case some kind soul
> will take pity on me.
>
> I added a new user "svn" and a new group "subversion-user", basically
> following http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg00933.html with
> the addition of also doing mkgroup -l -g subversion-user>>
> /etc/group.
>
> I then created a subversion repository in the usual way, on an NDAS
> drive, and then changed the file permissions so that they are owned by
> user svn and can be modified by members of the group subversion-user.
>
> I could then add and commit files to my repository. So far so good.
>
> I also want to be able to work on another machine in a similar manner,
> so did the same things on that machine regarding user and group as I
> did on the first. My suspicion is that I shouldn't have, I should have
> done something else instead, because I see
> gary@mimosa ~
> $ ls -l /svn/db
> total 14
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 gary            Kein               2 2010-01-22 09:34 current
> -r--r--r--  1 svn             subversion-user   22 2010-01-22 08:22 format
> -rw-r--r--  1 svn             subversion-user    5 2010-01-22 08:22 fs-type
> -rw-r--r--  1 svn             subversion-user 1920 2010-01-22 08:22 fsfs.conf
> (etc.)
> from the first machine...
>
> ...but see
> gary@sunflower ~
> $ ls -l /svn/db
> total 14
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 ????????       ????????    2 2010-01-22 09:34 current
> -r--r--r--  1 ????????       ????????   22 2010-01-22 08:22 format
> -rw-r--r--  1 ????????       ????????    5 2010-01-22 08:22 fs-type
> -rw-r--r--  1 ????????       ???????? 1920 2010-01-22 08:22 fsfs.conf
> (etc.)
> from the second.

The ???????? means that Cygwin on the second machine doesn't know the owner
of these files.  This means the user and group IDs are missing from the 
'/etc/passwd'
and '/etc/group' files.  Add them and this problem should go away.  See the
discussion of security in the Cygwin Users Guide for more details.

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