Thanks for the reply, Christian. I want to create the databases on Linux, and then multiple users need to access the database directory. The other users are generally on Windows. You're correct, I'm not using the client/server architecture. (I haven't looked into it. If you think it's what I really should be doing, I can start to look at it.)
If it's a Linux thing, not specific to BaseX, then maybe that is good news for me. I'll see what I can find about default permissions on Linux. Cheers, Amanda > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Grün [mailto:christian.gr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 10:58 AM > To: Amanda Galtman <amanda.galt...@mathworks.com> > Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de > Subject: Re: [basex-talk] File permissions on .basex files > > Hi Amanda, > > In Java, we use default operations for creating files and directories. > My knowledge on Linux file permissions is limited, but I just ran > BaseX on two different Linux machines, and I noticed that different > permissions were assigned to the newly created files on both systems. > > So.. Maybe there are some Linux experts on this list who can tell us > if there are ways to define default permissions for newly created > files for specific users, or all sub-directories in the BaseX > directory? > > > Alternatively or in addition, > > perhaps it is possible to stop requiring write permission for non-updating > > queries; I’m not familiar with the reason why write permission is needed. > > This is tricky indeed indeed. Databases are opened in the very core of > BaseX, and they are not bound to specific users. A database will be > opened once, but it may then accessed by different users in the > client/server architecture. > > But I assume that the problems you describe are caused by multiple > users accessing the same database directory on a Linux machine, and > that you don't use the client/server architecture? > > Cheers, > Christian
