[Qgis-user] administrator rights and writing permission

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Dear Listers,

Using GRASS/QGIS under Linux usually, I am using QGIS 0.11.0 Metis under 
Windows on a teaching purpose and meet a problem with the writing 
permission given by default. All the students and myself are working 
with limited accounts, the administrator account being used just for 
managing the computers (this practice is recommendable for security and 
even compulsory under UNIX).

When I try to start a shell session in GRASS (grass tools), I get this 
message:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/home': Permission denied sh: cd: 
/home/giraudoux: No such file or directory

and then can work normally. I was not that much worried about that until 
I found  that some GRASS functions (e.g. i.fusion.brovey)must write in 
the directory /home, of course unsuccessfully and thus fail. They can be 
used only if one has full rights on the computer including writing on 
the C:\Program Files directory (actually quite dodgy on a routine basis).

My question(s): am I right with this ? If so, is there a way to specify 
a by default directory other than C: that could be used for writing 
(e.g. into another partition, or into e.g. the application data of the 
user) ?

Thanks in advance for any hint,

Patrick






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