[GRASS-user] Permission denied to access a mapset in Linux

António Rocha antonio.rocha at deimos.com.pt
Tue Nov 12 06:59:30 PST 2013


Dear Glynn,

When you said:
GRASS won't allow you to select a mapset as the current mapset unless
you are the owner of the mapset directory.

How can I change the "owner of a mapset directory"?
Regards,
Antonio



On 12-11-2013 14:46, Glynn Clements wrote:
> António Rocha wrote:
>
>> I have a Location and Mapset in a folder in Linux Server that was
>> created by me and I runned some scripts and created some maps etc. I
>> have a colleague that is trying enter in the mapset and it gets
>> Permission Denied. How can I allow her to access the mapset without any
>> problems?
> You can "access" any mapset provided that you have the relevant
> permissions (read permission for files, read and execute permission
> for directories).
>
> GRASS won't allow you to select a mapset as the current mapset unless
> you are the owner of the mapset directory.
>
> If you just need to access maps from a particular mapset, you can add
> the mapset to the search path with g.mapset, or reference maps using
> fully-qualified names (map at mapset format).
>



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