> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have set GRASS up on our SGI.  The software is now to the point
> where users are using it.  I have run into a problem.  It turns 
> out noone can access any of the mapsets in any of the locations
> except user grass, the account I used to set up the GRASS software.
> I have set the permission on the database directory to 777 and still,
> noone can access the data.  Does anyone know what the problem is?
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> -Stephen Dzurenko
>  Ocean Mapping Division
>  Ocean Technology Center 
>  Graduate School of Oceanography
>  University of Rhode Island
> 
>  ph: 401 792-6879
>  fx: 401 792-6849
>  e-mail: steve@ocean.oce.uri.edu
> 

It's not just a question of unix permissions.  Each userid should
use it's own mapset.  Each user will have a .grassrc in their
home directory that will be read for mapset and location information
I would guess that user grass owns them all.  If you have created
personal mapsets and they are actually owned by grass, no matter
the write permissions, they need to be owned by the correct user.

If users don't yet have their own mapset, they should run GRASS
(not as user grass) and then type in a new personal mapset name.
GRASS will create it for them.

Then, once a user has a personal mapset, run g.mapsets.  This command
sets a path for all mapsets to be searched, so when a user types
d.rast mapname, GRASS will go (*in order*) through the mapsets in the
search path to find it.  All users should have PERMANENT in their 
search path.  


Sue Huse
REGIS
UC Berkeley

