[daip] permission question

[Eric Greisen]

Michael Bietenholz writes:
 >   Is there an easy way to give someone read-only access to your aips
 > directories (ie. the aips data files under your aips user-id)?  I have
 > some inexperienced summer students that I would like to be able to
 > copy files from my aips user-id to theirs, without giving them write
 > access to all my aips data.
 > 
 > As far as I can tell, MOVE, IMH, UCAT all require write access to
 > the underlying files (CADxxx, CBDxxx) etc. even when you are using
 > OPCO='MOVE' say in move.
 > 

The open routine will open a read only file after failing in the
read/write mode (ZDAOPN.C).  But the plan to keep the last access date
updated in the CA file gets in the way.  Why not write the files to a
public FITS area and have them run FITLD from there?

Eric Greisen