Installing SoftBench

Customizing SoftBench CM Configuration
Modifying the Configuration Files
Appendix C 75
The permission symbols come in three groups:
• lower case letters control access to individual operations
• upper case letters control access to groups of operations
• numbers set relative priorities for the associated entry
These priorities, coupled with the best match criteria, apply a single
set of permissions to a given access.
SoftBench CM normally uses the best matching entry (longest /path
prefix match, then most specific user/host match) to determine access
rights. However, by specifying priorities, you can use a shorter path for a
specific user. For example, in the following entries:
*@host R /earth ;
john@host S / ;
jane@host 2S / ;
the user "john" has "R" access to /earth because /earth is more specific
than "/" and "S" access to the rest of the archive. The user "jane" has "S"
access to the whole archive, including /earth because the "2" specifies an
increased priority.
The /opt/softbench/sbin/checkperm -d command displays the
permissions file entries in sorted order. For any given access, the first
entry that matches the requesting user@host and /path determines the
access.