[GRASSLIST:3900] Re: getting started in grass

[Hamish]

> >"location" will be spearfish
> done
> 
> >"mapset" will be user1
> done
> 
> The error is;
> "Sorry no access to user1
> 
> Mapsets in location spearfish
> PERMANENT user1"
> 
> Which tells me that the mapset exists but I am denied access.


You need to be the owner of a mapset (UNIX permissions) to use it.

Try making the mapset something else, e.g. your name. It should then ask
you if you want to create a new mapset. user1 is empty anyway so doesn't
matter.

see  http://grass.ibiblio.org/gdp/grass5tutor/HTML_en/p643.html


Hamish