NTFS Permissions Changing

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Sep 28 22:18:49 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 21:58 +0000, Stephen Reece wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are running Mercurial 1.8.4

FYI, the current version is 3.5.1. The future sends its regards.

>  Everything has been fine until this morning. For some reason, NTFS permissions on certain random files are being changed, and when users try to push, they get an Access Denied error. All access is done via HTTP rather than directly on a share.
> 
> We use a Mercurial Committers and Viewers security group in Active
> Directory to control access, and NTFS permissions are supposed to be
> inherited from the top directory. An example file that this happened
> to is .hg/requires.

That particular file is only written to once in the lifetime of a
repository, at creation. What is the date on that file?

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