NetWare 4.1/9000 Concepts

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NetWare Glossary
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Effective rights
The rights that an object can actually exercise to see or modify a particular
directory, file, or object.
An object’s effective rights to a directory, file, or object are calculated by
NetWare 4 each time that object attempts an action.
In native NetWare, trustee assignments are kept in the file system. In
NetWare Services, the trustee assignments are kept in a separate database for
each volume. Network supervisors can choose how NetWare Services
trustee assignments and HP-UX permissions interact to grant access. They
can choose
• None. All users have access to all files and directories.
• NetWare. Netware-only enforcement. All file access is controlled by NetWare
rights.
• UNIX. HP-UX-only enforcement. All file access is controlled by HP-UX
permissions.
• Both. All file access is controlled by a combination of NetWare and HP-UX
enforcement. In each case, the more restrictive of the two applies.
NetWare effective rights to a file or directory are determined by
• An object’s trustee assignments to the directory or file.
• Inherited rights from an object’s trustee assignments to parent directories.
• Trustee assignments of Group objects that a User object belongs to.
• Trustee assignments of objects listed in a User object’s security equivalences list.
If a user has a trustee assignment to a directory on a given level in the
directory structure, and also one on a higher level, the current trustee
assignment overrides the previous one.
Trustee assignments to a group, however, are added to individual user
trustee assignments.