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NetWare Glossary
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Password
The characters a user must type to log in with. NetWare allows the network
supervisor to specify whether passwords are required and, if so, to assign a
login password to each user on the network.
The network supervisor can also specify whether passwords must be unique
and whether they must be changed periodically.
In NetWare, login passwords are encrypted at the workstation and put into a
format that only the NetWare server can decode. This format helps prevent
intruders from accessing network files.
Hybrid users have two passwords, one for their HP-UX account and one for
their NetWare account.
See also “Authentication”; “Security” (Login security); “User object”,
“High Performance File System (HPFS).”
Path
The location of a file or directory in the file system.
For example, the path for file REPORT.FIL in subdirectory ACCTG in
directory CORP on vol SYS: of server ADMIN is
ADMIN\SYS:CORP\ACCTG\REPORT.FIL
In HP-UX, the path for REPORT.HL in subdirectory ACCTG in
subdirectory CORP of the root (/) directory is
/CORP/ACCTG/REPORT.HL
See also
Permissions
Access levels that can be set for HP-UX files and directories: read (r), write
(w), and execute (x). Each HP-UX file or directory also has an owner who,
along with the system administrator (root user), controls these permissions.
Each of the HP-UX permissions can be set individually for three different
sets of users: the file or directory owner, the group to which the owner
belongs, and all other users.