[xmonad] darcs permissions error?

[Brent Yorgey]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:55:38PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > I tried pushing a patch to the xmonad-contrib repo today and got the
> > following error:
> >
> >  darcs: takeLock /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib/_darcs/lock in
> >  /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib: atomic_create
> >  /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib/_darcs/lock in
> >  /home/srv/code/XMonadContrib: permission denied (Permission denied)
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas about the cause?
> 
> Remains from the hack attack of c.h.o. Apparently no one has verified
> XMC was not tampered with and has made it writable. This has been
> causing trouble for weeks/months.

I see.  So who has the ability/permission to do this?  

-Brent