Grass Mapset permission-check
Eric Buddington
eric at detritus.ees.wesleyan.edu
Wed Sep 13 12:32:11 EDT 1995
Running GRASS 4.1.5 on an SGI Indy, IRIX 5.3.
Problem: g.access would change permissions appropriately, but access was
still denied to other users upon login.
I looked in the source code for libgis, and found that the check for
access (in file mapset_msc.c, line 91) looks at the *ownership* of the file,
rather than whether the current user can read (or perhaps write) to it.
I'd think this would prevent shared access to a mapset under any
circumstances.
Does anyone know why it would check the ownership of the directory rather
than the permissions?
-Eric
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