Supervising the Network

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Managing the NetWare Services File System
User Types
User Types
On a NetWare 4.1/9000 NetWare Services server, three different types of
users can work with files and directories in the file system:
• HP-UX users have an HP-UX user account and not a NetWare user account.
These users cannot access a NetWare server but can manage a NetWare server
from HP-UX.
• NetWare users have a NetWare user account and do not have an explicit HP-UX
user account.
• Hybrid users have both NetWare and HP-UX user accounts. These are the users
who want to maintain access to the same files regardless of whether they are
logged in to a NetWare account or an HP-UX account.
Regardless of your user type (unless you are a hybrid user), when using
NetWare Services to access files and directories, it is strongly recommeded
that all users be set up as hybrid users. Otherwise, HP-UX users can access
and modify HP-UX files as if they owned them.
HP-UX Users
HP-UX user accounts provide limited NetWare server administration such
as installing NetWare Services, installing NetWare Directory Services™
(NDS™), repairing NDS, setting up volumes, and so on. To use these
administration tasks, you must be the System Owner on HP-UX and have
permission to administer a NetWare server. (Root and the System Owner are
given permission to administer NetWare Services when it is installed.)
When NetWare Services is installed and the hybrid user feature is not
enabled on HP-UX, the following HP-UX accounts are used for all NetWare
users but do not have hybrid user status:
• nwroot is used by the NetWare ADMIN and server processes
• nwuser is used by all NetWare users
Since NetWare Services runs as a privileged process, NetWare Services has
the right to set a file’s owner, group, and permission mask. All files created
by NetWare users are owned by nwuser, assigned to nwgroup, and assigned
the umask permission mask defined in NetWare Setup on HP-UX.