[Qgis-user] administrator rights and writing permission

[Gary Sherman]

Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
> Dear Listers,
> 
> Using GRASS/QGIS under Linux usually, I am using QGIS 0.11.0 Metis under 
> Windows on a teaching purpose and meet a problem with the writing 
> permission given by default. All the students and myself are working 
> with limited accounts, the administrator account being used just for 
> managing the computers (this practice is recommendable for security and 
> even compulsory under UNIX).
> 
> When I try to start a shell session in GRASS (grass tools), I get this 
> message:
> 
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/home': Permission denied sh: cd: 
> /home/giraudoux: No such file or directory
> 
> and then can work normally. I was not that much worried about that until 
> I found  that some GRASS functions (e.g. i.fusion.brovey)must write in 
> the directory /home, of course unsuccessfully and thus fail. They can be 
> used only if one has full rights on the computer including writing on 
> the C:\Program Files directory (actually quite dodgy on a routine basis).
> 
> My question(s): am I right with this ? If so, is there a way to specify 
> a by default directory other than C: that could be used for writing 
> (e.g. into another partition, or into e.g. the application data of the 
> user) ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hint,
Try setting the Windows HOME and/or HOMEDIR environment variable to 
point to user-writable directory.

-gary
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