[Qgis-user] administrator rights and writing permission

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Gary Sherman a écrit :
> Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
>> 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,
> Try setting the Windows HOME and/or HOMEDIR environment variable to 
> point to user-writable directory.
>
> -gary
Just dit it (eg U:\Documents and Settings\giraudoux, tried also 
U:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME% ) but it does not work.

Thanks anyway,

Patrick
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