Tim Michelsen wrote: > > You must be the owner of the directory selected as the current mapset. > > A FAT/VFAT partition mounted by root must be mounted with the uid= > > option to set the owner. > > OK. I was able to get access using the right uid in fstab. > But let's say that more than one person uses this computer. > What is the best way to handle this?
Use a filesystem which was designed for a multi-user OS. > > Alternatively, you can disable the checks in the source code and > > re-compile. The checks are in G__mapset_permissions and > > G__mapset_permissions2 in lib/gis/mapset_msc.c. This isn't recommended > > on a multi-user system, as it can result in a user inadvertently > > creating directories which the mapset's owner cannot delete or rename. > > Could this not be converted in a configuration parameter? It could, but that replaces one problem (using FAT filesystems on Unix) with another (users accidentally trashing other users' mapsets). > See the following use case: > A desktop/notebook used by a group of people. Of course, these collegues > would not work on this machine simultaniously but log in at different > times with different user names. > > Any solutions? The ideal solution is to skip the ownership check on filesystems which don't have any concept of ownership. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to detect that. -- Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user