[Live-demo] Permissions on the data directory

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 13 15:16:46 PST 2012


Micha wrote:
> I notice that 'user' does not have write permissions on 
>    ~/user/data/north_carolina
>    ~/user/data/osm
>    ~/user/data/natural_earth

correct.

> The other data directories are group writeable and belong to
>  group 'users'. Probably all dirs should be: 0775 root users ?

nope, those are courtesy symlinks to common dirs elsewhere on the
disc (ie outside the home dir), and raw & immutable source
material. use the home dir for scratch space, that's what it's
there for.


best,
Hamish



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