Sharing of mapsets.....

[James Darrell McCauley]

Amy Keeley (akeeley at 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
--
James Darrell McCauley, PhD        http://soils.ecn.purdue.edu/~mccauley/
Dept of Agricultural Engineering   mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu
Purdue University            new-> tel: 317.494.1198 fax: 317.496.1115