[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 micha):

 Replying to [comment:3 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.

 Is this use case relevant to the LiveDVD?


 >
 > 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?

 Attached are screen shots of the error. Looks like it's failing on setting
 the region.

 How about putting the North Carolina and Spearfish datasets right under
 ~/user/grassdata instead of a symlink to /usr/local/share ??

 >
 >
 > cheers,
 > Hamish

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