[GRASS-user] Read only mapsets

Daniel Victoria daniel.victoria at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 04:24:17 PDT 2019


You could use the PERMANENT mapset for this purpose. Also, the AFAIK
mapsets are writable by the directory owner. So you could use the
filesystem setting to achieve what you want to do.

There is a more detailed explanation here
https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Location_and_Mapsets

Cheers

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 6:53 AM Panagiotis Mavrogiorgos <pmav99 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I was wondering, is there a way to enforce a Mapset to be read-only? I
> guess that this can always be enforced on the Filesystem level with
> something like this:
>
> find . -type f -exec chmod a-w {} \;
>
>
> but then again some file might need to be writable afterall (sqlite.db?)
>
> So is there a way to e.g. open specific maps in read-only mode?
>
> all the best,
> Panos
> _______________________________________________
> grass-user mailing list
> grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/attachments/20190426/d1979336/attachment.html>


More information about the grass-user mailing list