Hello, I have also run into this issue: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/31096
> /media/Docs is a automatically mounted partition every time i startup > the computer. Do you know how I can check if I'm fully authorized on > it ? I don't remember any similar issue with it but it could be > related. As it seems to occuring over and over, I think this is a relict from the early days of computing. To my opinion there is no need to think that the GRASS users are by default concurrently working on the same location. This may have been true in old days where many people where sharing mainframes or today in server environments. Nowdays, desktops and notebooks are cheap. We are mostly using GRASS like GIMP or Office programs: one person at one single computer. Thus the following defaults may be revised: * requiering the user to be the _owner_ or the files on linux/unix systems: * many users use shared partitions between windows and linux and automount these * also on linux systems the one-user-one-computer is getting common * working with having GRASSDATADIR on an external large drive is difficult * let users write on more than one mapset * again, concurrent use of a location is rather rare * this would help to get a file sorting function in order to clean up the GRASSDIR once in a while (add a command g.move, http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/891) * sharing information with between mapsets/locations instead of replication saves disk space (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/30333) this is currently not possible I know that some of the old cats or power users with _very special_ needs like server processing setups will be against a change which affects the permissions/rights situation and capabilities of GRASS. But please consider that such capabilities could still be maintained on a non-default basis as compile options. And the general public certainly wants an easy to use system where such pecularities like permissions are important. Be reminded that GRASS on Windows (focus of current release cycle) does not know such rights at all. I hope for an open discussion and helpful feedback, Timmie _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user