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Trustee database
A database that contains information about trustee assignments and inherited
rights filters (IRFs) in NetWare. Since NetWare checks trustee rights every
time a user accesses a file or directory, quick access to the trustee
information is essential. The trustee database stores the following
information:
• Trustee assignments granted to directories or files
• Modified IRFs (each NetWare file and directory has an IRF which controls how
rights granted with trustee assignments are enforced on descendent nodes)
In NetWare Services, each volume maintains its own database of trustee
assignments in the volume’s control directory in a hidden file (.trustee.sys).
When NetWare Services is initialized, these volume databases are loaded
into shared memory in a per-volume memory structure. Since each volume’s
database is separately maintained both on disk and in memory, a volume can
be dismounted and its database removed from memory without affecting the
other volumes.
See also “Inherited Rights Filter, file system”; “Inherited Rights Filter, NDS
object”; “Security”; “Trustee.”
TTS
See “Transaction Tracking System (TTS).”