Data base access problem.

[Ken Sibley]

> 1.  Having been a Grass user (and installer), I convinced a collegue to try
> a few things.  Unfortunately,  though he can access GRASS4.1,  he is unable
> to access my database.  After the initial specification of the location and
> mapset, GRASS responds with a message saying "Sorry, no access to <<PERMANENT>>."  
> Afterwords, it lists the Mapsets in the location and says
> "note: you do not have access to any of these mapsets"
> 
> I have made sure that everyone has read access to the files in the mapset
> (and in fact changed the protection so that everyone had write access), with no 
> change in the situations.
> 
> I am obviously missing something simple.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

First you must give read/write/execute permissions for the location.  Second,
only the owner of a mapset may select the mapset.  The second user will have
to select a seperate mapset within the location.  Then inside of grass
the new user may use your maps for analysis or display by using the 
command g.mapsets and setting the correct search path.  If they plan to
edit any of these maps then they will have to g.copy the map to their
mapset and then use their personal copy of the map.
 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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Ken Sibley
USDA-SCS
ksibley at ncg.scs.ag.gov