NetWare 4.1/9000 Concepts

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NetWare Glossary
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HPFS
See “High Performance File System (HPFS).”
Hybrid user
A hybrid user is a user who can own or access the same files when logged in
either as a NetWare user or as a HP-UX user.
On a NetWare Services server, three types of users are possible:
• NetWare users have a NetWare user account but do not have a HP-UX user
account
• HP-UX users have a HP-UX user account but do not have a NetWare user
account
• Hybrid users have both HP-UX user accounts and NetWare user accounts and can
access the same files from either account
When NetWare users log in and create files, they maintain rights to the files
because of trustee assignments. When HP-UX users log in and create files,
they maintain rights to the files because they own the files.
However, when NetWare users create files, NetWare Services must assign a
HP-UX owner to the file to store it on a HP-UX file system. When NetWare
Services is installed, three HP-UX user accounts must be set up for this
purpose:
• nwroot
• nwuser
• nobody
Two HP-UX groups must be set up to assign group permissions
• nwgroup
• nogroup
These accounts and groups must be set up manually from HP-UX.
NetWare Services runs as a HP-UX root process and sets the owner, group,
and permission mask of all files created by NetWare users. If there are no
hybrid users, these files are owned by nwuser, assigned to nwgroup, and
assigned a permission mask as defined in the nwconfig file.