[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #868: Permissions on GRASS LOCATIONS

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#868: Permissions on GRASS LOCATIONS
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 Reporter:  micha    |       Owner:  live-demo@…                
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                        
 Priority:  major    |   Milestone:                             
Component:  LiveDVD  |    Keywords:  QGIS GRASS data permissions
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Comment(by hamish):

 Hi,

 this is a known bug in qgis, it does not support multi-user/collaborative
 GRASS locations. still unfixed :-(
   http://hub.qgis.org/issues/2947

 this is important because it means that it can't be used for teaching
 qgis+grass in the classroom setting when the common source data is over
 NFS, Samba, or sshfs link; a typical use case.

 unfortunately, making the user account the owner of the files* is not a
 healthy workaround, it's a no go for the ISO. qgis needs to be fixed.

 [*] or be owner of anything in /usr/local/ for that matter


 I assume qgis gives the permission denied error because it is trying to
 write something to the mapset? for a read-only task what is it trying to
 open for write and why?


 cheers,
 Hamish

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