Hello,
I have several vector, site,
and raster files under a certain
mapset that I want other people
logged in as a different user
to have access to. I have used
Unix chmod, and also g.access, but
nothing seems to work. They still
get a message when entering grass
with the specific mapset chosen that
they do not have access to this mapset.
Do I really have to go in and create
a new mapset and copy all of the files
to that directory? It seems like such
a waste of space.
Any help would be appreciated,
Amy K. Keeley
akeeley@ncdc.noaa.gov
Look into g.mapsets. This allows users to share mapsets, but will only
allow the user to write to their own current mapsets. If you need to
share mapsets between machines, you should be able to NFS mount these
mapsets and have access to them using g.mapsets.
Randy Hills, National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC)
National Weather Service
Minneapolis, MN
email: rhills@snow.nohrsc.nws.gov
Amy Keeley (akeeley@ncdc.noaa.gov) writes on 23 March 1995:
I have several vector, site,
and raster files under a certain
mapset that I want other people
logged in as a different user
to have access to. I have used
Let's say that these are in /home/grass/data/location/PERMANENT
Have each user do the following:
mkdir $HOME/data
mkdir $HOME/data/location
ln -s /home/grass/data/location/PERMANENT $HOME/data/location/PERMANENT
Then they can access the data by specifying $HOME/data
as their DATABASE location (specify the value of $HOME--do
not use the variable).
If there are only certain files that you want them to access (perhaps
some are confidential), chmod should work but it would probably be better
to create a seperate mapset for private files.
Darrell
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Dept of Agricultural Engineering mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu
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