Identities- and permissions-preserving replicas
Identities- and permissions-preserving replicas maintain the same user and group identities and permissions on elements, and changes to identities or permissions are synchronized among them.
The owner and group of the original VOB are not preserved; the user who enters the mkreplica –import command becomes the owner of the new VOB. That user’s group is the primary group of the VOB, and the user’s group list becomes the VOB’s group list. The user must be a member of all the groups that are used for elements in the replica.
To create a replica that preserves identities and permissions, you should run mkreplica –export at an identities- and permissions-preserving replica.
Note: You may need to run cleartool protectvob on
the new VOB replica to ensure that the owner, group, and group list of the
new VOB match the values in the other identities- and permissions-preserving
replicas in the VOB family. Make sure that you update the VOB owner’s group
list. When you run mkreplica –import,
you may want to run the command as the VOB owner of the other identities-
and permissions-preserving replicas in the family. If the VOB owner account
has the same group list at the exporting and importing sites, you do not need
to run protectvob.