Supervising the Network

3-4
Managing the NetWare Services File System
User Types
Considerations for NetWare UNIX Client (NUC) Users
NUC users can log in to a NetWare server either through the HP-UX server
console or by using nwlogin and nwlogout at the HP-UX command line (see
System Owner Handbook for information). The NetWare volumes can be
accessed from the HP-UX server console, from the automounter, or from the
command line using mount.
We suggest that HP-UX users who will be using HP-UX or NetWare servers
be set up as hybrid users. This ensures that they are the owners of the files
they create; otherwise, nwuser is the owner.
Note the following items:
• UNIX mode volumes allow you to use your permissions if you are the owner.
With NetWare mode volumes, if you are the owner, you are not granted
privileges other than your effective rights.
• As shown in the examples in UNIX mode, files created by nonhybrid users are
owned by every other user with equal (nonhybrid) permissions. Your files can,
therefore, be opened and modified by other users. For the security of users, we
suggest that when using UNIX mode, you set users up as hybrid users.
The NUC adopts the following rules for files and directories:
• The NUC attaches mapped IDs (from the /etc/netware4/nwusers file or the
default nwuser and nwgroup for nonhybrid users) on the inode when the file or
directory is created in the HP-UX file system.
• When checking files and directories, if the NetWare login ID maps to the ID on
the inode, it displays the user’s HP-UX UID and GID as the owner.
The following scenerios in Table 3-1 may help you to understand how users
are seen from NUC:
Table 3-1 NUC Behavior
User Type
ID on the
Inode
Ownership as
Seen from
NUC
Action
Performed by
NUC
1. Hybrid User 1 Mapped IDs of
the Hybrid User
Native IDs Creates a file and
lists the file for
ownership.